[GEM-dev] Force Gem software rendering?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Tue May 12 13:05:43 CEST 2009


Hallo,
Claude Heiland-Allen hat gesagt: // Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> is there a way to force Gem to use software rendering, like with some
>> environment variable? SW is currently the only way I'm able to use Gem
>> on Matrox gfx cards (of course slowing them down even more, but at
>> least I can see squares.)
>>
>> Ciao
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1908191&group_id=64325&atid=507082
>
> """"
> you might have a look at driinfo, which claims to be able to set the DRI  
> settings at runtime.
> """"

Thanks for this pointer. Where can this driinfo be found? I only have glxinfo, which 
just has this option:

-i      Force an indirect rendering context.

This option doesn't "stick" though: It's only used during a single run of the
glx info display.

Ciao
-- 
Frank




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