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   rbowman to John-Paul Stewart   
   Re: X11 forks   
   31 Dec 25 20:00:56   
   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:28:50 -0500, John-Paul Stewart wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-12-30 10:19 p.m., rbowman wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:33:59 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> My sore point with Wayland is that it doesn't seem to work if the   
   >>> machine doesn't have 3D.   
   >>   
   >> ???  I'm not sure if any of my machines do. How can you tell?   
   >   
   > Run the 'glxinfo' command (part of the mesa-utils package on Debian) in   
   > an xterm.  Near the top of the output it will say "direct rendering:   
   > Yes" if hardware accelerated 3D is available.   
      
   direct rendering: Yes   
   server glx vendor string: SGI   
   server glx version string: 1.4   
      
   You forgot to say 'glxinfo | less' :)  I've no idea what the 464   
   GLXFBConfigs are telling me.   
      
   I assumed all my boxes had hardware acceleration but I don't do rotating   
   cubes, shaky windows, and all the stuff that would presumably fail.   
      
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