Re: Really slow glxgears, excellent speed in Planet Penguin
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 16:28:50 +0300, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 06:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 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...
[...]
> > > 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.
Only on Sarge. The manpage is currently missing on Etch and Sid. That
might have something to do with the fact that the glxgears from the old
xbase-clients package was a forked version maintained by Xfree86/Xorg.
This fork is discontinued. The "original" version which is now in
mesa-utils seems to have some other issues as well:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360064
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Regards,
Florian
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