use its hardware accelerated drivers it falls back on one of its software renderers.
(eg. classic swrast, softpipe or llvmpipe)
</p>
<p>
You can run the <code>glxinfo</code> program to learn about your OpenGL
library.
Look for the <code>OpenGL vendor</code> and <code>OpenGL renderer</code> values.
That will identify who's OpenGL library with which driver you're using and what sort of
hardware it has detected.
</p>
<p>
If you're using a hardware accelerated driver you want <code>direct rendering: Yes</code>.