hi cyrill
thanks for replying
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 20:10 +0100, cyrille henry wrote:
hello,
in order to know if your driver suport hardware acceleration, you can try :
glxinfo | grep direct
it says:
'direct rendering: Yes'
if it says yes : then you have hardware acceleration, so gem should use it.
anyway, ubuntu do not distribute by default binary driver, so the opengl stuff is not very efficient. i think you should install the binary driver (if compatible with your vision of open source)
i know, that is why i installed the proprietary/binary fglrx-driver.
once this is made, you should have "good" acceleration, and gem should use it.
it still think, that i have 'good' acceleration. for example i can run opengl based games like armagetron in fullscreen mode without any performance problems. also does xscreensaver run without using much cpu in fullscreen mode. i tried once to build something with a similar number of polygons like one of the screensaver animations in gem, but at least when i switch to fullscreen mode, my cpu goes to 100% and the framerate dramatically drops down to 5 frames per second or slower. because of this behaviour, i believe that gem is the only opengl based software on my computer, that does *not* use hardware acceleration, whereas it seems that other programs do. unfortunately i still don't know a reliable way to make sure, whether gem uses hardware acceleration or not, besides comparing its performance with other software.
my problem in other words: how can i make sure at compile time, that gem is compiled so, that it uses hardware acceleration afterwards?
and i am still hoping to hear some succes stories....
roman
well, i hope it help, cyrille
Roman Haefeli a écrit :
hi all
i am trying to use gem, since i changed to ubuntu. i used gem before successfully on windows on the same computer. but since i started compiling gem myself on ubuntu dapper, i am not convinced by its performance and i strongly believe that i am doing something wrong, or anything on my computer is not optimized etc.
specs: Pentium M 1.7GHz Ati Radeon Mobility 9600 Ubuntu Dapper
Xorg 7.0.0 xorg-driver-fglrx gem from cvs (checked out today) the output of './configure': http://romanhaefeli.net/gem_configure.txt
why am i thinking that gem is not working well on my computer?
the screensaver also does opengl stuff, that seems to be quite complicated in my eyes and it does eat only a little of the cpu-power, when running. also running the same gem-patches on windows seems to be not only 2x-3x faster, but maybe 30-50 times. running fgl_glxgears gives me values between 440 and 450 frames per second, which makes me assume, that hardware accelerated opengl works on my computer.
you should have 10 time more with this card.
so i suspect gem no to use any hardware acceleration at all and i wonder why. is there a way to check, if gem uses hardware acceleration? if yes and if my gem is _not_ using hardware acceleration, what do i need to do in order to make gem use of it?
many thanks in advance
roman
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