Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 03:08 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 02:43, Iain Buchanan wrote: > [SNIP] > > > By default equery only queries your installed packages (the specific > > > versions). > > > > > > # equery -N u -a xorg-server | grep aiglx\\\|xorg-server > > > [ Sear

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-30 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Iain, I think it can depend on the driver. With some versions of ati-drivers, the CPU is used to help the GPU, and I get great frame rates. With other version of ati-drivers (including 8.28.8 and 8.29.6) the cpu usages stays low for all 3d, and I get crap framerates... don't know if this i

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-30 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, On 10/29/06, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Be sure DRI is working. use glxinfo if you need to verify if it's active. If you don't have DRI working, then most of the graphics will be done on CPU. Or at least that's how my laptop did it. well DRI in on and working: display: :0 s

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 30 October 2006 02:43, Iain Buchanan wrote: [SNIP] > > By default equery only queries your installed packages (the specific > > versions). > > > > # equery -N u -a xorg-server | grep aiglx\\\|xorg-server > > [ Searching for packages matching xorg-server... ] > > [ Found these USE variable

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 01:44 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 01:25, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running > > > xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. > > > > what aiglx flag? > > > > $ equery u xorg-server | grep

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 30 October 2006 01:25, Iain Buchanan wrote: > >   the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running > > xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. > > what aiglx flag? > > $ equery u xorg-server | grep -i aiglx > $ By default equery only queries your installed packages (the

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 13:36 +0100, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, > the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running > xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. what aiglx flag? $ equery u xorg-server | grep -i aiglx $ > After having enabled it > xorg started running with AI

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Lord Sauron
Be sure DRI is working. use glxinfo if you need to verify if it's active. If you don't have DRI working, then most of the graphics will be done on CPU. Or at least that's how my laptop did it. On 10/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/29/06, Tomáš Bartoň <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/29/06, Tomáš Bartoň <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 13:36, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, > the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running > xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. After having enabled it > xorg started running with AIGLX (using c

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Marco Calviani
> I tkink its normal. I run beryl with NVidia driver and when I move a window or > something the CPU goes up to 100% ... PS: this makes my system a bit unresponsive when running heavy applications like Firefox or OO -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Tomas, I tkink its normal. I run beryl with NVidia driver and when I move a window or something the CPU goes up to 100% ... well, you're probably right since i've seen the same behaviour also in other machines. But i'm asking myself if the GPU should not take care of performing these operat

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Tomáš Bartoň
On Sunday 29 October 2006 13:36, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, > the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running > xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. After having enabled it > xorg started running with AIGLX (using compiz or beryl). > Although the system is quite usable

[gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-29 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. After having enabled it xorg started running with AIGLX (using compiz or beryl). Although the system is quite usable there is still an issue: i thought the system would have relied c