Notes on games spin

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 09:13 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Note that the dialog will _only_ be shown when dri (direct rendering) is not 
> available, so if we wouldn't show the dialog (and not start the game) the user 
> would get a slide show (software rendering) and navigating a menu with the 
> mouse when you get 3 frames per second can be quite annoying.
> 
> Alternatives are welcome. Notice that my plan means that users of the other 
> spins who install an opengl game through yum will get the same dialog if they 
> don't have direct rendering available. I believe this is a feature, but if 
> others disagree then please say so, then I won't spend time on this.

IMHO this is a very good idea and should be a distro-wide feature. If
DRI is not available the user should be informed in an understandable
manner and possibly linked to a wiki page for more information, rather
than mysteriously failing or running real slow. The latter case usually
results in "Fedora sux cuz its slow" threads in the forums.

Also consider the case of a user with supported hardware, but the driver
just hasn't initialized DRI properly for whatever reason. Fast user
switching, for one, seems to result in only the first session logged in
getting DRI, later sessions are SOL.
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