[ltp] glxgears and T41

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:31:31 +0200, Alejandro Sobrino Beltrán wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got an IBM ThinkPad T41 (with an Ati Radeon 7500 M7 graphics
> card) and right now it's with a Debian Sid system. If I run glxinfo it
> says that I have 3D acceleration:
> 
> direct rendering: Yes
> 
> And when I run glxgears I get about 560FPS, isn't that a little bit
> poor? I mean, shouldn't it be around (al least) 900 FPS?

Could it be that glxgears uses software rendering? IIRC I had the same
behaviour when I tried GL stuff on my A30 with 24 bit colour depth, as
the video memory isn't suffiecent for 3D acceleration at full
resolution and colour depth. Maybe you have more luck with 16 bit
colour depth.

Regards,
Tino