Vista, etc. (was: Re: Employment linux admin/programmer wanted)

[JoeHill]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:38:19 -0500
Simon got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:

> Have you ran glxinfo like LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo?  If your
> Xorg.log seems to indicate you have it, but glxinfo says you don't,
> that will tell you why.

[joehill at node1:~>$]LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
server glx extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
    GLX_ARB_multisample
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
    GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
    GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
    GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float
GLX extensions:
    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
    GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce4 Ti 4200/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.5.5 NVIDIA 81.78
OpenGL extensions:

...a lot more than I want to post here, but this is what's so bewildering, is
that ' direct rendering: Yes', and yet when I run a game like Ioquake3 or
Darkplaces, it defaults to software rendering, a la Mesa. Now, I was told that
I needed to reinstall the Mesa libs, then reinstall the NVidia drivers, but
even when I do rpm --ivh --force, it *says* it installs the Mesa libs, but
nothing in /usr/lib at all except the NVidia libs.

It's...frustrating :-)

> As for me, I have hardware acceleration working fine, but fglrx is
> slower than Windows, and freezes the box on logout, while r300 is more
> stable than fglrx (things break, but just crash the app and not the
> hardware) but way slower than either of ATI's drivers.
> 
> On 12/11/06, JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:46:24 -0500
> > Simon got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:

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