From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 31/12/2025 19:28, 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.   
   >   
   Ah. Interesting.   
      
   Yes. GLX and not ActiveX was what I was thinking of   
      
   e.g. on this   
   glxinfo | grep -i render   
      
   ...direct rendering: Yes....   
      
      
   > If not, in all likelihood you just don't have the appropriate drivers   
   > installed for your hardware.  I don't know of any reasonably recent   
   > hardware that doesn't do 3D.  Figuring out which packages to install to   
   > get it can be a challenge, though!   
      
   You have to go back a long way to intel onboard graphics that didn't do   
   hardware acceleration, or some open source nvidia driver that didn't and   
   needed the 'non-free' driver installed instead.   
      
      
      
      
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