How do I verify that acceleration is working on my machine? I just installed 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2) on a 400 MHz G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 2x. It appears all the right drivers are loading in the log files. The r128 driver is supposed to enable acceleration by default with XFree86 4. I've been using XMMS with the open GL graphic analyzer as the test. On my G4 the graphic analyzer "stumbles" along while on my son's G3, with identical setup (accept for graphic card) it hums along quite nice. Is it valid for me to be using XMMS to varify acceleration? or is there a better, more definitive way of testing this. I'm wondering whether acceleration might be on but I've simply screwed up my XMMS installation. Perhaps I'm just a doofus but I never had these "problems" with SuSE 7.0. Thanks for any help, Ola
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:05:30AM -0700, Ola Olsson wrote:
How do I verify that acceleration is working on my machine? I just installed 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2) on a 400 MHz G4 with ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 2x. It appears all the right drivers are loading in the log files. The r128 driver is supposed to enable acceleration by default with XFree86 4. I've been using XMMS with the open GL graphic analyzer as the test. On my G4 the graphic analyzer "stumbles" along while on my son's G3, with identical setup (accept for graphic card) it hums along quite nice. Is it valid for me to be using XMMS to varify acceleration? or is there a better, more definitive way of testing this. I'm wondering whether acceleration might be on but I've simply screwed up my XMMS installation. Perhaps I'm just a doofus but I never had these "problems" with SuSE 7.0.
Thanks for any help, Ola
certainly not definitive.... For me it has always been how fast windows render, scroll and when you move them around, do they drag? If everything is smooth with no drag, then acceleration is enabled. You can pretty easily see if it isn't. Switch to X3 and you will see the difference! Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org
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