OLPC and GLX

[Bryan Duff]

I'm working do duplicate this part presently by setting up a gentoo on
the OLPC to make sure I'm not missing anything.

Outside of that I'll try out OSMesa.

-Bryan

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Bryan Duff wrote:
>
>> After compiling in mesa source to get GLX working on the FC7-based
>> builds.  Running `glxgears -fullscreen` I get ~25 fps.  Compared to
>> Ubuntu which gets 65 fps, this is rather poor.
>
> One last thing: I'm very curious about this disparity: could
> you please provide more details?  What versions of Mesa
> and the X servers have you been using?  Was the depth exactly
> the same?  Could you run glxinfo on both systems?  How did
> you build the Fedora X server?  What compiler did you use
> and what optimization flags?
>
> There should be no particular reason why Ubuntu would have
> better *software* GL rendering performance than Fedora,
> although hardy ships with gcc 4.2, which could make a big
> difference.
>