[Openchrome-users] Curious GL problem

[John Robinson]

On 31/07/2006 11:59, Bart Hartgers wrote:
> Hi Everybody!
> 
> After getting mpeg playback to work on my EPIA SP8000E (CN400), I
> decided to try a few games. And I found that hardware accelerated OpenGL
> is as fast as the software version. glxinfo claims that direct rendering
> is working in the hardware case, but glxgears shows no significant
> difference in FPS. I get about 140 fps (fullscreen) in both cases. I am
> using the latest openchrome-svn and drm-cvs and a recent libmesa.
> 
> Googling I found that other people get about 400 fps using hardware
> opengl, so something seems to be wrong. Any ideas on what could be
> happening or what I can try?

Check what version of libGL you're using by looking in /usr/X11R6/lib - 
1.2 uses hardware acceleration and 1.5 is software-only. Check your 
environment variables to make sure LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT isn't set, as 
it is by default in some distros.

Cheers,

John.