Re: [Bug-gnubg] 3d animation under XFree86 and FreeBSD

[Jonathan Kinsey]

> From Jim:
> One of my work colleagues has a machine running XFree86 4.3 with a
> Matrox G500 card which includes hardware acceleration. Performance
> with some programs - glgears for example is very fast. It does have
> DRI configured. But when starting gnubg with a 3d board, the following
> shows up in the message window and the animations are less than
> blindingly fast (3 seconds for the dice animation).
This is strange as the animation timing is independent of the rendering 
speed.  That is on a fast graphics card more frames are drawn (the animation 
takes the same time).
This points to a problem with the timing routine - not the drawing code.

> I've enclosed the zipped output of glxinfo and the X server log
> Does anyone know why this is failing to see the accelerated graphics
> card?
I suspect the test may be failing.

How fast would you guess the board is being drawn?  Try hiding the board 
with a random window, remove it and see how long the 3d board takes to draw. 
 Or try dragging a piece and see how smooth/jumpy it appears.

Jon

Ps. Is the mailing list running a bit behind?

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