On 2019-06-18 11:54, Philip Webb wrote: > > Does CPU use seem to go way up when xscreensaver starts? > > No. The problem seems to be with the 3-D savers : > Gkrellm shows heavy use of 1 CPU (out of 8 ) at a time when they run. > > > Is glxgears running as it should ? > > I can't find an executable or pkg called 'glxgears', > but the saver called 'gears' small preview runs at 60 fps , > but the big preview runs at 14 fps ; > previously, the latter also did 60 fps .
These findings harden my suspicion that the *GL* stuff (of which I have only the minutest clue) is broken for you. Do install the mesa-progs package that Dale found and run glxgears. It should have almost no effect on CPU use if things are working right. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
