I give, What in the world is the trick with AIGLX?

[Kristian Høgsberg]

oldman wrote:
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> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Monday 09 October 2006 17:55, oldman wrote:
>>> (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
>> This is the key.  W/out DRI you can't do AIGLX.  In order to get DRI for your 
>> nvidia card, you'd have to use the closed source binary drivers.  Other video 
>> chips, such as intel, have opensource 3d rendering and thus can use AIGLX out 
>> of the box.
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> 	Thanks Jessie,  I was pretty sure that was the case, but didn't realize
> that nVidia's driver will fix the problem.  Do you know if it's AIGLX
> that is causing the error in xorg.log?  I don't see the error in my FC5
> or Ubuntu (non-AIGLX)?

Yes, the error message comes from AIGLX, that's why it's prefixed with 
'AIGLX'.  During the initialization, AIGLX checks that DRI is present.  If not 
it logs this error and fall back to software rendering.

Kristian