[ODE] DRI Problems with ODE

Steffen Wischmann steffen.wischmann at ais.fraunhofer.de
Wed Feb 26 02:34:02 2003


Sam Clegg wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:51:38PM +0100, Steffen Wischmann wrote:
> 
>>I've installed ODE 0.035 and the testfiles worked proper but very slowly.
>>Than I activated the direct rendering, and testfiles didn't work any longer.
>>I've an ATI Radeon 7500 Graphic Card and Suse Linux 8.1.
> 
> 
> You can see if DRI is actiavated by running "glxinfo" it should 
> come as part of the base xfree86 packages of any distribution.
> 
> Once that tells you that direct rendering in enabled you can test
> it with some simple examples (e.g. the gl screensavers that come
> with xscreensaver).  If that all works, but ODE doesn't, then we
> have a problem.

glxinfo tells me, that direct rendering is activated, and except one 
(pipes) the gl screensavers works also.
I think I have to get a new graphic card.