[Gllug] Glxgears

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Fri, February 4, 2011 22:13, Mick Farmer wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 21:40 +0100, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
>> On Fri, February 4, 2011 21:25, Mick Farmer wrote:
>> > Dear GLLUGers,
>> >
>> > My Dell Inspiron laptop is running Fedora 14 (64-bit) and so
>> > far I've been happy with the performance.
>> >
>> > I now want to run some graphical applications.  To benchmark
>> > the system I ran glxgears which reported a consistent 59
>> > FPS.
>> >
>> > However, googling for similar data I came across sites
>> > reporting 2000+ FPS.
>> >
>> > What should I expect?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
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>> 59 fps seems extremely low. My desktop (dual core intel with nvidia
>> graphics) reports about 2475 fps for example.
>>
>> The problem may be that you are running software gl emulation (i.e.
>> mesa)
>> rather than using the hardware.
>>
>> Try running glxinfo and look at the output. It should tell you what gl
>> driver you are using. What kind of graphics card do you have on the
>> machine ?
>>
>>
>> Salsaman.
>>
>>
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>
> Dear Salsaman,
>
> This is the information that I obtained.  It means nothing to me.  Can
> anyone shed some light?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mick
>

Ah, OK...a quick google for your card came up with the following:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=59730

Seems that this is normal for the card. You can try disabling vsync and
see if it gives any improvement.

Salsaman.


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