[fluxus] Slow frame rate in 64-bit Ubuntu

[Glauber Prado]

Gerry Grainger wrote:
> Thanking you :D
> Incidentally - the reason that the cubes were flashing in the previous 
> thread was that they were clipping horribly: basically the transform 
> was appropriate for 16 cubes, and there were 256 being made - as such, 
> they were overlaying, and there were some clipping issues.
>
> On 06/07/07, *Glauber Prado* <glauberalex at uol.com.br 
> <mailto:glauberalex at uol.com.br>> wrote:
>
>     Gerry Grainger wrote:
>     > I'm using the fglrx driver, but I'm getting ok results on glxgears,
>     > and DirectRendering is enabled.
>     > 2D acceleration seems to be running fine, otherwise. I'll install
>     > something like TuxRacer as a test, methinks.
>     >
>     > On 06/07/07, *I. E. Smith-Heisters* <heisters at 0x09.com
>     <mailto:heisters at 0x09.com>
>     > <mailto: heisters at 0x09.com <mailto:heisters at 0x09.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     What drivers are you using for your Radeon? My experience
>     with ATI's
>     >     Linux drivers has been, shall we say, less than stellar.
>     >
>     >     On 7/6/07, Gerry Grainger < nowhere.elysium at gmail.com
>     <mailto:nowhere.elysium at gmail.com>
>     >     <mailto:nowhere.elysium at gmail.com
>     <mailto:nowhere.elysium at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >     > Hi folks: I've just installed fluxus on my shiny new
>     64-bit machine
>     >     > (especially built, purely *for* fluxus), and it's running
>     pretty
>     >     slow.
>     >     > Basically, I've got an AMD64x2 4600+ CPU, 2GB RAM, and a
>     Radeon
>     >     X600 card in
>     >     > there, on Ubuntu 7.04, fully
>     >     >  updated and everything.
>     >     > If I do something as simple as:
>     >     > (build-cube)
>     >     > (show-fps 1),
>     >     > it comes up as about 40fps. On my Dell laptop (with a 1.6 GHz
>     >     Pentium Mobile
>     >     > - it's about two years old now), it flies along at about
>     350-400
>     >     fps. The
>     >     > Dell as an M300 card in it (Radeon X300 mobile), and 1 GB
>     of RAM.
>     >     > Any ideas?
>     >     >
>     >
>     >
>     (help "desiredfps") in the repl ctrl-0, should give you a hint on this
>     subject ;).
>
>
welcome, strange they were flashing here with 15, not anymore though i 
thought it was a feature :D.