Bug#360064: mesa-utils: glxgears is broken

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:13:18AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> 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? :)

I'm not very enthusiastic and I do not have the time :-/

> This is a feature, it reminds people that glxgears is not a benchmark.
> Use -printfps (or -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark :) if you
> must.

Where is that documented (both the existence of the flag and that it is
not for benchmarking)?

$ man glxgears
No manual entry for glxgears
$ glxgears -h
Warrning: unknown parameter: -h

$ glxgears --help
Warrning: unknown parameter: --help

$ ls /usr/share/doc/mesa-utils
changelog.Debian.gz  copyright

glxgears might not be a good benchmark but it is certainly a quite
useful tool for quickly checking if a machine has 3D acceleration
enabled or not.

Gabor

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