Re: Really slow glxgears, excellent speed in Planet Penguin
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Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 05:12 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Geoff Reidy
> wrote:
>>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Nvidia GX 5200 (128MB RAM) xorg 7.0.22 nvidia binary
>>>>> driver 1.0-8762 linux-source-2.6.16 (home-rolled kernel)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> As the subject mentions, I get good speed in Planet
>>>>> Penguin, and also in Google Earth, and also in glxheads
>>>>> but glxgears in *sloooow*.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>> They've changed it after all these years, try:
>>>>
>>>> glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark
> Well that's something I'd have never figured out by reading the
> non- existent man page...
>
> Back in the old days, the gears would spin madly. Do you know
> why they don't anymore? Even though it says I'm getting 1975
> FPS?
>
> I'm getting ~2200, and they rotate in kind of a weird way. It
> seems like they were rotating so fast that our eyes can't follow.
> (Is it possible?)
Sure.
> Also, I found a man page, but that didn't say
> anything about that option. (Does it really exist? It doesn't
> have any effect.) For reference, I have 2.6.8-2-386 kernel and
> nVidia GeForce 4.
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/glxgears
mesa-utils: /usr/bin/glxgears
$ man glxgears
No manual entry for glxgears
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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