-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEmoGPS9HxQb37XmcRAiLMAKDWppus/YHUR0Kj9K0BdxmBB9XTdACeOfsh LmSB5lTIPWngrqkJjKqWRZY= =nnur -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
