direct rendering: No

[mariuss]

Running on Ubuntu 8.10 and having video playback issues (playback will start but then freeze the whole system as soon as you pause/stop or skip forward/backward).

Checking the FAQ I noticed that direct rendering should be enabled, but in my case seems disabled:
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)

Any suggestions on how to enable direct rendering? Where am I supposed to set LIBGL_DEBUG? And then where should I look for these verbose messages?

[topfs2]

Install drivers for your gfx card. envyng can do that.
If you have the installed your user probaby doesnt have the rights to do use the graphiccards acceleration.

But this is most definatly a question best asked in ubuntuforums.

Cheers,
Tobias

[mariuss]

I think I do have the latest drivers, nvidia-glx-180. Also, I doubt that this is a permissions thing, but who knows.

I'll try the ubuntu forums as well. I thought I will ask here first since the "direct rendering" is mentioned on this site.

[topfs2]

If you have latest drivers they are probably not configured correctly or the rights are bad.

try glxinfo | grep direct

and it should say Direct Rendering: No

if you do
sudo glxinfo | grep direct
and it says Direct Rendering: Yes
you have a rights issue (jaunty is full of them if you use that).

Otherwise I think a Xorg log along with xorg.conf and what OS you are running.

But any more advanced than this I think will be best asked on ubuntuforums :)

Hope you get it resolved.

Cheers,
Tobias

[mariuss]

After all I figured that direct render is working properly. What I did before was to run glxinfo remotely, over ssh, and in that case it says that direct render is disabled. Go figure.

Thanks for the help Tobias.

XBMC is till freezing on me, but I will start a separate thread for that.