Flash tests

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe it is worth testing flash on a classmate running Sugar to
> determine if the problem lies with Sugar or the XO? Anyone have a
> Classmate out there?

I don't think a link to Sugar can be made. Also, LATU tested with
Debian on XO in order to get one more reference point.

My biggest suspects are:

- Flash being tuned for several CPUs but not for the Geode,

- slow graphics performance of X in the OLPC builds.

Regards,

Tomeu

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:13 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> The video in "Hulk Central Smashdown" shows only two
>>>> frames, and the game is unplayable due to slowness in
>>>> rendering.
>>>
>>> I don't think we should expect games like "Hulk Central Smashdown" to
>>> become playable at any time soon.
>>
>> Personally, I agree, but LATU disagrees.
>> Their report indicates that this video plays on Intel Classmates
>> (but only under Fedora, not Windows!) and there shouldn't be
>> such a gulf in performance.   Flash is detecting and using
>> hardware assist on the Classmate, but isn't happy with what
>> it finds on the XO.
>>
>> wad
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