Re: OpenArena incredibly slow after apt-get dist-upgrade

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:51:00 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> David A. Bandel schreef:
> >On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:14, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> >> david DOT bandel AT gmail DOT com schreef:
> >>>Folks,
> >>>
> >>>Not sure if this is an openarena issue or an xorg issue as both were
> >>>upgraded during a squeeze dist-upgrade.  Openarena is now unplayable slow on
> >>>a 2.83GHz core2quad system with 8Gb RAM.  Two days ago (before the upgrade)
> >>>it ran like a scalded cat.
> >>There was a new kernel and a new xorg. Can you check if you still have
> >>direct rendering enabled? Check te output of 'glxinfo | grep "direct
> >Thanx for the reply.  But:
> >
> >david@tole:~$ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"
> >direct rendering: Yes

I seem to remember that I have at least once seen "direct rendering:
Yes" even though dog-slow software rendering was active. There might be
more clues in the output of:

  glxinfo | grep -E 'OpenGL|vendor|version'

and, of course, the all-time favorite:

  grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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