Hi; On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 14:05 +1000, Josh Stewart wrote: > > I recently stumbled across Clutter on Neil Patel's blog and thought > I'd give it a quick once over. After some initial stumbles, I got it > working and from the example code I've looked at so far its very > impressive. Just a couple of comments / questions though: >
Cool thanks for trying it out :) > 1) Should Clutter work with an Intel graphics adaptor? I first tried > this on my laptop and although its a good machine (Core Duo etc) its > only got an Intel card. All the demo's ran extremely poorly (ie < 1 > FPS) and i thought that there was actually a problem with how I'd > compiled everything. This same machine is able to run things such as > Beryl without a problem so I'd be very surprised if it doesn't have > the hardware grunt for simple demos. There is a problem with certain versions of the intel drivers where by attempting to sync to vblank causing the driver to 'stall' for a second or two. This stall appears to be fixed in newer intel drivers (at least those shipped with feisty) but I dont think it actually vblanks syncs. The workaround is to set CLUTTER_VBLANK=none. > > 2) After the disapointing results on the laptop I tried on a desktop > machine with an Nvidia 6200. This ran much better for the examples > however the more advanced toys such as opt and fluttr died immediately > with an error saying that OpenGL 1.2 or greater is required. This > machine is using a fairly new version of the NVidia drivers (v.9631) > so I'm confident OpenGL is setup and working. I've attached a glxinfo > dump if its any help. Hmm, I thought this buglet was fixed - what version of clutter are you running ? > > 3) Any chance of a Clutter forum or somewhere to bulk view the mailing > list archives? Coming from an open source background its been drummed > into me to read every forum / mailing list you can find before posting > a question. Unfortunately there's not much out there for Clutter at > the moment and I always hate asking questions that make me look > dumb :) There is a 'beta' mailing list archive here; http://lists.o-hand.com/clutter . I guess we could set up a forum if enough people want it - I myself am not a big fan of those however (which is likely why its not been done as yet at least). > > Anyway, keep up the great work. Clutter is the type of project that > could do HUGE things if it gets off the ground! Thanks :) Thats definitely the plan! -- Matthew -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
