Re: general question re: performance

2007-01-21 Thread Glenn Becker
Patrick - You need "direct rendering" to be enabled from Xorg. Check it with glxinfo $ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes <=== must be yes What is your graphics card ? It's an ATI Radeon Mobility with 16mb video memory. I got Stellarium to behave base

Re: general question re: performance

2007-01-21 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Glenn Becker : > I'm running 6.2 on an old but not ancient Dell laptop, PIII 1000MHz, > which now has seven operating systems on it. I have noticed recently that > the graphics-heavy planetarium program Stellarium -- which runs great on > my Debian GNU/Linux system -- barely creaks along on FreeBS

general question re: performance

2007-01-21 Thread Glenn Becker
All - One of the reasons I jumped into trying a kernel configuration/compile is that I have been noticing performance issues with STABLE. (if you are reading and want to skip the following explanatory verbiage the questions are: how do I profile applications to figure out where the performa