Bug#360064: mesa-utils: glxgears is broken
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:01 +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
>
> I've upgraded to X.org 7.0 from experimental and I also installed the
> mesa-utils package since glxgears is no longer part of xbase-clients.
Indeed, X.Org no longer maintains a fork of glxgears.
> But glxgears from mesa-utils seems to be broken:
>
> - When glxgears is first launched, the image is shifted left in the
> window (only the rightmost few cogs of the large red cogwheel are
> visible, everything left to it falls outside of the window)
> - If I switch destop & go back, the image appears at the right position
> (center of the window) for a split second and then jumps back to the
> previous position
> - If I move the window, the image appears at the center of the window,
> but as soon as the mouse leaves the glxgears window, the window goes
> completely blank
The XFree86/X.Org fork of glxgears had some fixes that were never
applied to the Mesa tree. These might be some of them. Are you
volunteering to create Mesa patches for these fixes? :)
> Moreover glxgears from mesa-utils do not print any frame rates, so it's
> pretty useless.
This is a feature, it reminds people that glxgears is not a benchmark.
Use -printfps (or -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark :) if you
must.
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