[Openchrome-users] OpenGL -- works?

Ivor Hewitt ivor
Thu May 25 03:51:20 PDT 2006


Dan Sandberg wrote:
> I've been experiencing serious slowness problems with OpenGL on my
> MII10000 ( CLE266 ).
> 
> I started with the stock via driver in Ubuntu 5.10, but have now tried
> the unichrome drivers as well.
> 
> When I run 'glxgears -printfps' on the machine, I get 75 frames/sec. 
> The gears start out spinning fast but then almost completely stop.  On
> my laptop ( Thinkpad T30, 1.8Ghz ) I get 1000 frames/sec. 
> 
> Is this how it should be for the latest unichrome driver, or am I doing
> something wrong?  Are the closed source drivers any better
> performance-wise?  I couldn't manage to test them out unfortunately.
> 
Sounds like you're using software GL.
You need to either build the mesa drivers, or an update to dapper would 
probably get working drivers too.

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Ivor
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