breezy 3 - what comes to mind

Alexandre Strube surak at surak.eti.br
Wed Aug 24 10:23:59 CDT 2005


On Qua, 2005-08-24 at 17:08 +0200, Hervé Cauwelier wrote:

> > - Why no "glx-gears"-command?
> As said, it was moved to the mesa-utils package. Glxgears is useless 
> anyway as glxinfo is much more interesting to check 3D acceleration 
> support, and it is *not* a benchmark.

It can serve as benchmark, specially for those on-board video cards.
When using dri from dri.sourceforge.net, for instance, for savage ones,
sometimes glxinfo says that dri is enabled but glxgears told you that
things are not exactly like that... 




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