[ltp] Re: OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:43:17 +0100


David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> 
>> Sadly, the best score I have (with the maximum of 512MB RAM) on my T20 is
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> [tim@elizabeth ~]$ glxgears
>> 70 frames in 5.6 seconds = 102.687 FPS
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>     Wow. Here's mine..
> 
> $ glxgears -printfps
> 8474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1694.717 FPS
> 8343 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1668.480 FPS
> 9339 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1867.789 FPS
> 9324 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1864.613 FPS
> 9313 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1862.537 FPS
> 
>

That means that you haven't got the 3D accelerated driver working!

2 things to check:

1)Which  setting do you have in xorg.conf?
    David - you have it working; would you post your Device section.

2)Do you have too much of Mesa installed?
    Either uninstall, or disable LibMesaGL
Otherwise, it will default to software rendering when there is perfectly 
capable 3d hardware.


Hope that helps,

Richard