[ltp] Re: OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[Nate Bargmann]

* Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> [2006 Jun 29 07:26 -0500]:
> On Thursday 29 June 2006 00:43, Richard Neill 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?
>  ...
> > 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.
> 
> I'm not clear if everyone who has responded to the score on my T20 above
> is actually running a T20.

My T23 is getting just under 235 fps with direct rendering enabled, per
glxinfo, on Debian Sid and KDE.  Runing under IceWM that improves about
1 fps.   Making glxgears full screen results in 31 fps.  

lspci reports:

01:00:0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev
05)

I have not tried Google Earth yet.

My desktop machine with an ATI 9250 based card runs just shy of 1200
fps.

- Nate >>

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