From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 1:14:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from utasvexg001.hfnweb.com (utasvexg001.hfnweb.com [207.49.36.37]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7B043F2 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:18:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by UTASVEXG001 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <12V3C48L>; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 01:12:20 -0700 Message-ID: From: Mike Morgan To: 'Alfred Perlstein' , Mike Morgan Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: slow opengl response Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 01:12:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01BF72D5.6237E3F6" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF72D5.6237E3F6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" i lowered my colors from 32bpp to 16bpp and now it's a lot more speedy. tnx, for the help! Michael Morgan -----Original Message----- From: Alfred Perlstein [mailto:bright@wintelcom.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:36 PM To: Mike Morgan Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: slow opengl response * Mike Morgan [000208 21:18] wrote: > > I'm running 3.4-stable w/x86 3.3.6 and Mesa 3 for OpenGL support. However > when i run xscreensaver's OpenGL screensaver shots, the movement is sluggish > and not fluid. > > I have a Viper 770 ultra tnt2 with 32 megs of RAM so it should moving pretty > speedy. Plus my system ram is 192 megs, with a PII-400. I would check that you have a version of XFree that supports your device natively, also I would check color depth, some cards are really speedy at 16bpp (or whatever) and absolute dogs at any other color depth. http://www.xfree86.org/ -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF72D5.6237E3F6 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" RE: slow opengl response

i lowered my colors from 32bpp to 16bpp and now it's a lot more speedy.  tnx, for the help!

Michael Morgan

-----Original Message-----
From: Alfred Perlstein [mailto:bright@wintelcom.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:36 PM
To: Mike Morgan
Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'
Subject: Re: slow opengl response


* Mike Morgan <mikemorgan@hfnweb.com> [000208 21:18] wrote:
>
> I'm running 3.4-stable w/x86 3.3.6 and Mesa 3 for OpenGL support.  However
> when i run xscreensaver's OpenGL screensaver shots, the movement is sluggish
> and not fluid.
>
> I have a Viper 770 ultra tnt2 with 32 megs of RAM so it should moving pretty
> speedy.  Plus my system ram is 192 megs, with a PII-400.

I would check that you have a version of XFree that supports your device
natively, also I would check color depth, some cards are really speedy
at 16bpp (or whatever) and absolute dogs at any other color depth.

http://www.xfree86.org/

--
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]

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