OpenGL

[vayu]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 4:18 AM, Priyadarsan Roy wrote:

> John L Fjellstad wrote:
>> Chris Fuller <chris at webpagemaintenance.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>> I've recently installed rss-glx and the screensavers are  
>>> appearing the
>>> desktop configuration dialog box screensaver list. However, I can't
>>> preview, test or use them. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Running Breezy with rss-glx0.7.5-4ubuntu2
>>>
>> Does glxgears work?  (type glxgears on the command line).
>>
>> Post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and /etc/X/xorg.conf and this  
>> group
>> can probably figure it out (probably, you don't have GL configured
>> properly. All of the rss-glx screensavers need OpenGL).
>>
>>
> I typed glxgears. I can see 3 gears running. It ran fast for one  
> second, then slowed down. Then I got hypnotized looking at it for  
> long time :) . What am I expected to see from it. I did not see  
> anything in the stdout.
>

Mostly it tells you if you have openGL working. You can't judge the  
speed visually. You can get an output to stdout by using:

glxgears -printfps
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