Re: Really slow glxgears, excellent speed in Planet Penguin
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 06:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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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
$ dpkg -S glxgears
xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/glxgears.1x.gz
xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears
$ which glxgears
/usr/bin/X11/glxgears
This may help you.
> $ man glxgears
> No manual entry for glxgears
> See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
>
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>
> 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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