Matthias Hopf wrote: > Start Xorg only (no Xgl), and check whether you have Direct Rendering > enabled with glxinfo. > > If not, check that you are in the 'video' group, if you're using the > default configuration.
This is all good, as also evidenced by: #1 The nvidia splash screen on X session startup #2 glxgears gets 1800 fps instead of the 250 it would get otherwise >>> However if I say "mplayer -vo x11 dancemonkeyboy.mpg" it plays solidly, >>> whether being dragged around the screen, made transparent, played on >>> the >>> corner between 2 desktops or what have you. >> -vo x11 tells mplayer to use xshm. It's slow. >> >> Do you have DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager? >> Did you run SuSEconfig after adding that? >> >> Alternatively, you could also try -vo gl2 or gl > > Don't use -vo gl2 or gl under Xgl. It will probably always be slower > than Xv, and if Xv doesn't work, OpenGL typically won't as well. Noted, I was checking alternative output methods to get a good set of data points - your later posting seems to address the issues I'm seeing on the problematic machine - thanks for the info. Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
