On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:04:10 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> I thought it's primary use was a benchmark.   I can't ever remember 
> running it at less than about 200 fps.

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Glxgears_is_not_a_Benchmark

> 
> >> After the builds, we have 'Xorg-7.6-2 Configuration', but we don't ever 
> >> tell the user how to test xorg.  I guessed at 'startx' and that brought 
> >> up twm.  We need to say that somewhere.
> > 
> > xinit works too.
> 
> startx is a script and the default ends up as
> 
> client=/etc/X11/app-defaults/xinitrc
> server=/opt/xorg/bin/X
> clientargs=""
> xserverauthfile=$HOME/.serverauth.$$
> serverargs="-auth ${xserverauthfile}"
> display=":0
> 
> xinit "$client" $clientargs -- "$server" $display $serverargs

So starx is a simple script that ends up calling xinit.

> > I think it's because you don't have kernel mode setting enabled in you
> > kernel config.
> 
> I'm not sure which setting you mean.

Kernel mode setting is enabled by default when you select the nouveau
driver in you kernel config. With some drivers (eg the radeon ati one)
you get a choice whether top have KMS enabled by default, but even then
you can enable or disable it with a kernel command line option. KMS is
incompatible with the Nvidia binary blob.

> LOL.  And you think the binary nvidia install is hard!

Yes, I've always found the Nvidia driver to be a PITA because it makes
recompiling the kernel much more compilcated.

Andy
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