Re: Please modify your OpenGL using games to use opengl-games-utils

[Wart <wart kobold org>]

dragoran wrote:
> On 9/25/07, Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl> wrote:
> > Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> > > Matthew Miller schrieb:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:44:44PM +0200, Alexander Boström wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Actually, I would consider that a bug in the application/game. If it's
> > > > Yeah, but since there's thousands of programs with that "bug", the wrapper
> > > > is a nicer solution.
> > > For me, this wrapper is not a solution, because I have got a error
> > > message. I'm using the
> > > nvidia driver from rpm.livna.org and stellarium is running fine with
> > > this driver.
> > >
> > > So I was force to block BZ #304851
> > Ugh, I agree this is bad, but not using the wrapper is not the solution, the
> > wrapper should be fixed. I naively assumed that the nvidea and fglrx drivers
> > where both using dri as well (I'm pretty sure the fglrx driver is, but I'll
> > give it a try).
>
> fglrx does while nvidia does _NOT_  use dri

Are you sure?  On my system with the nvidia binary drivers from livna:

$ glxinfo | grep -i direct
direct rendering: Yes

...and neverball/neverputt work fine with the wrapper.

Now, the nvidia driver does not load the dri module in xorg.conf, 
presumably because the binary driver has DRI built-in.

--Wart