Hi Lionel,

AFAICT there's been no change in Pigment that can have triggered such a
slowness problem in Elisa. It seems to me like your driver is switching
to a software path. Did you recently update your Mesa/DRI open source
driver? Were you using the proprietary ATI driver before?

Regarding OpenGL ES, Pigment has a plugin to run over that API but it's
only dedicated to embedded systems that are shipping most of the time
without OpenGL support. For ease of development, memory consumption and
speed reasons, people working in that market only ship (proprietary)
OpenGL ES implementations. AFAIK there's no hardware accelerated OpenGL
ES implementation for the desktop, apart from the Imagination SDK
dedicated to developers. And anyway, OpenGL ES is not really meant to be
used on the desktop.

Regards.

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 16:33 +0100, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For a few weeks, my Elisa is unusable because of slowness (rotating an
> icon take approximately 30 seconds) and display a lot of garbage on
> the screen. It might be related (but I'm not sure) with the fact that
> I use the free ATI driver (but it should provide reasonnably good 3D
> performances and the few OpenGL applications I have work perfectly).
> 
> Has anybody else the same experience ? (Warning : I'm not sure it is
> driver related at all. It's just an intuition) 
> 
> 
> This also raise some question in my head about about performances in
> Elisa and pigment. I've seen that pigment can use OpenGLES but is it
> an option for Elisa, for example ?
> 
> Thanks for sharing your experiences,
> 
> Lionel

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