ubuntu and glxgears

[Net Llama!]

On 10/19/2005 05:25 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 10/19/05, Man-wai Chang <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
>> Inside GNOME, I opened a terminal and then run `glxgears`. It erred with
>> message "unable to connect to localhost:10.0". How could that be? GNOME
>> is runing on top of Xorg....
>>
> 
> Hmmm! I don't run Gnome, but rather IceWM, and glxgears runs from a
> terminal with no squawking, but it looks quite different than when I
> used it on other distros. I don't get the frame rates echoed to the
> terminal, and it looks as though it's running in syrup about 20 frames
> per sec!

Ubuntu removed the FPS from glxgears.  There's some crazy 
--iknowthatglxgearsisnotabenchmark option that you can add to get the 
FPS back.  If you're only getting 20FPS, then it sounds like you're 
either using a bad videocard, or an unaccelerated X driver.

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