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

[Jim Segrave]

On Wed 03 Sep 2003 (09:47 +0000), Jonathan Kinsey wrote:
> >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.

My colleague has the day off, I'll try to find out tomorrow

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