Testing opengl

[Ian Truelsen]

How can I test to see whether opengl is working on my system?

Ian Truelsen
Masters program in Philosophy
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
BA (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Email: ***@ihtruelsen.2y.net

[Christoph Rademacher]

You can try one of the opengl screensavers if you use KDE

Post by Ian Truelsen
How can I test to see whether opengl is working on my system?
Ian Truelsen
Masters program in Philosophy
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
BA (Wilfrid Laurier University)
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[Prashanth Aditya Susarla]

In my opinion, the OpenGL screensavers in KDE won't work. Atleast quite a
few on irc.openprojects.net#gentoo or this list couldn't get them to work.
Someone once mentioned that to enable them one needs to use the full
version of qt. What we get is the free version.

Regards,
Prashanth Aditya Susarla

Post by Christoph Rademacher
You can try one of the opengl screensavers if you use KDE

Post by Ian Truelsen
How can I test to see whether opengl is working on my system?
Ian Truelsen
Masters program in Philosophy
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
BA (Wilfrid Laurier University)
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[Justin T.]

The problem is actually with the ebuild for kdeartwork (from what I have
seen):

use opengl && myconf="$myconf --with-gl" || myconf="$myconf --without-gl"
myconf="$myconf --without-gl"

This was taken from the .ebuild file for kdeartwork. It is changing the use
to what the person requires, but then goes through and cancels it out again.

I went through and commented out the second line:

#myconf="$myconf --without-gl"

And then recompiled kdeartwork... OpenGL screensavers now work perfectly for
me. Of course this is a change in the file that will disappear with the next
"emerge rsync", so be aware if you recompile that you check this.

Not sure exactly why they have this blocked out (could be that it causes
problems with certain setups), however it works perfectly here. (Athlon
1200, NVidia TNT2, and everything compiled with the highest optimizing...)

Justin T

Post by Prashanth Aditya Susarla
In my opinion, the OpenGL screensavers in KDE won't work. Atleast quite a
few on irc.openprojects.net#gentoo or this list couldn't get them to work.
Someone once mentioned that to enable them one needs to use the full
version of qt. What we get is the free version.
Regards,
Prashanth Aditya Susarla

Post by Christoph Rademacher
You can try one of the opengl screensavers if you use KDE

Post by Ian Truelsen
How can I test to see whether opengl is working on my system?
Ian Truelsen
Masters program in Philosophy
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
BA (Wilfrid Laurier University)

[b***@nethouse.com]

glxgears will test your fps
glxinfo will give all kinds of other info regarding the opengl status
of your system

Post by Christoph Rademacher
You can try one of the opengl screensavers if you use KDE

I have never had any luck with kde's opengl
screensavers... xscreensaver's opengl savers work great.

[Ian Truelsen]

Post by b***@nethouse.com
glxgears will test your fps

Just out of interest, what would be a decent result from the glxgears test?
I am getting about 1200fps.

Ian Truelsen
Masters program in Philosophy
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
BA (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Email: ***@ihtruelsen.2y.net

[Bart Lauwers]

A decent result would be same speed fps at full screen high color. It
depends, these results could be really good or really bad we can't say
like this.

My Geforce 3 does only 22 fps at 1280x1024x32, and that card is supposed
to be reasonably fast. But when I take all minimal settings the fps goes
up to 2446.

Bart

Post by Ian Truelsen

Post by b***@nethouse.com
glxgears will test your fps

Just out of interest, what would be a decent result from the glxgears test?
I am getting about 1200fps.

[b***@nethouse.com]

Post by Ian Truelsen

Post by b***@nethouse.com
glxgears will test your fps

Just out of interest, what would be a decent result from the glxgears test?
I am getting about 1200fps.

That is a very decent fps... sounds like DRI is loaded and doing its
job. I get around 240 or so fps on an ATI rage128 Pro 32MB/AGP without
DRI. I've haven't tried it with DRI in a while as I was getting
annoying freezeups.

Cheers,
Bill

[James Drabb]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 04:35:04 -0500

Post by Ian Truelsen
How can I test to see whether opengl is working on my system?
Ian Truelsen
Masters program in Philosophy
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
BA (Wilfrid Laurier University)
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try running glxgears and glxinfo