LinuxQuestions.org - Configure hardware accel. Debian

Hello all,

I'm running Debian etch, nvidia-specific driver downloaded from nvidia and installed. I can't figure out how to enable hardware acceleration.

My xorg.conf file lists the following in the Device section:

Code:

Section "Device"

    Identifier    "nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE]"

    Driver        "nvidia"

    Option        "RandRRotation" "on"

EndSection

Please note in the above, RandRRotation is enabled, and I do get a rotared (vertical) display, which I believe means I do indeed have the proper nVidia driver (I can't get rotation with the generic nvidia driver from the distro)

Synaptic tells me that libgl1-mesa-dev, libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx are installed, but the command glxinfo in terminal returns:

"bash: glxinfo: command not found"

I'm trying to experiment with 3ddesk, but running the 3ddeskd command returns the following:

Code:

Daemon started.  Run 3ddesk to activate.

myhome:~$ 3ddeskd: glXIsDirect failed, no Direct Rendering possible!

3ddeskd: Please configure hardware acceleration.  Exiting.

...which is why I was trying to check on my hardware acceleration, leading to the findings above.

[Incidentally, should 3ddesk work ok with a rotated display?]

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance and cheers
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EDIT

OK progress report - I installed mesa-utils package, ran the following:

glxinfo | grep irect

Got the following output:
direct rendering: No

So the question remains: What do I need to do to enable it?

Second update: Ran glxheads :0 in terminal, got a small window with a green triangle spinning quite smoothly, and the following output:

Code:

Name: :0

  Display:    0x805e008

  Window:      0x2a00002

  Context:    0x806e310

  GL_VERSION:  1.4 (2.1.0 NVIDIA 96.31)

  GL_VENDOR:  NVIDIA Corporation

  GL_RENDERER: GeForce 6150 LE/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

What does all this mean?

Again, thanks in advance.