no hardware acceleration?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:

>> From glxinfo:
>> direct rendering: Yes
>
>> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
>
> I guess that the second means I don't have hardware aceleration.
> What does the first one mean?
>
>> From sysinfo:/ :
>> Display Info
>> Vendor: Mesa Project
>> Model: Software Rasterizer
>> Driver: 2.1 Mesa 7.1 rc1
>
> No mention of my geforce graphics card (GX5200LE 128 MB AGP).
>
> Would this sort of thing cause mplayer and ffplay to freeze?
> Each of them last a couple before seconds before freezing.
> ffplay keeps a little over 1% of the cpu.
> Don't remember about mplayer.

I just noticed the date on xorg.conf:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 590 2009-06-28 16:36 xorg.conf

yum.log only mentions xorg twice that day:
Feb 05 00:57:51 Updated: xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.2-3.fc9.i386
Feb 05 00:57:53 Updated: xorg-x11-xtrans-devel-1.2.1-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 00:58:22 Updated: xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 00:58:46 Updated: xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.2-6.fc9.i386
Feb 05 00:59:13 Updated: xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.3-12.1.fc9.noarch
Feb 05 01:01:14 Updated: xorg-x11-utils-7.4-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:06:54 Updated: xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.9-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:13:13 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.0.8-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:23:22 Updated: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.2-3.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:24:11 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.0.0-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:24:20 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.3.2-3.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:24:20 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-openchrome-0.2.903-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:24:21 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-geode-2.10.1-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:25:04 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-mutouch-1.2.1-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:25:13 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-19.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:25:13 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.9-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:25:14 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-elographics-1.2.3-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:25:14 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.10-2.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:25:24 Installed: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-0.15.1-3.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:25:24 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.6.2-1.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:25:25 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-savage-2.2.0-2.fc9.i386
Feb 05 01:25:34 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-glint-1.2.1-1.fc9.i386
Apr 14 21:48:01 Updated: xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.2-6.fc9.i386
Apr 14 21:48:58 Updated: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.2-6.fc9.i386
Jun 28 16:31:44 Updated: xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.2-7.fc9.i386
Jun 28 16:36:13 Updated: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.2-7.fc9.i386
[root at localhost log]#

Any ideas why this would mess up mplayer and ffplay?

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