[SDL] Re: Weirdness with SDL_GetVideoInfo and Joystick

[Mark <line72> Dillavou]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 07:29, Tyler Olsen wrote:
>   > Mostly it is just X11. The info you dumped tells you what the SDL
> > graphics routines have to work with. If you use OpenGL, then you get to
> > use all the neat things on your video card. Try running glxinfo to find
> > out what you really have available. If that doesn't show all you video
> > card goodies then you don't have your video card properly configured.
> > 
> > 		Bob Pendleton
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hmm, I see. Well I don't use OpenGL for this program (at least not yet). 
> glxinfo displays a bunch of stuff that I'm not going to copy over unless 
> someones wants me to, but it does say:
> 
> OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9700 Generic
> OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.9.0)

if you run glxinfo | grep direct

and it prints:
direct rendering: Yes

then your opengl drivers are setup correctly

Mark

> 
> And since I don't have a Radeon 9700 I guess its setup incorrectly. :( 
> Oh well, I guess I have to (yet again) attempt to configure those damn 
> ATI drivers succesfully. That doesn't solve the joystick problem though. 
> Thanks for the help