I upgraded my Dapper and imagine my surprise...

[Phillip Susi]

paul cooke wrote:
> 
> It's software 3D (extremely slow), NOT accelerated 3D... for that you have to 
> use the nvidia driver, NOT the nv driver.
> 

I do not believe this is true.  Depending on exactly which card you 
have, the mesa drivers very well may provide accelerated 3D support. 
I'm using a Radeon 9800 Pro and the open source mesa drivers now provide 
impressive accelerated results with glxgears, though sometimes it locks 
up, so YMMV.

> come back to us with your glxgears frame rate under that software 3D... and 
> we'll have a laugh... :)
> 
> ps. to get the glxgears frame rate use the following command:
> glxgears -printfps
> 
> this is what I get with the nvidia driver:
> |paulc at broken-drum:~$ glxgears -printfps
> |13586 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2717.025 FPS
> windowed 
> |1125 frames in 5.0 seconds = 224.866 FPS
> full screen 1280x1024 
>