Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:05:02 +0100 From: Patrick =?iso-8859-1?q?Lamaizi=E8re?= <patfbsds+questions@davenulle.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: general question re: performance Message-ID: <200701212205.02550.patfbsds%2Bquestions@davenulle.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0701211856550.9211@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0701211856550.9211@sdf.lonestar.org>
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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 FreeBSD and is > basically unusable. 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 ? > Is it generally accepted that a custom kernel with all the fat > trimmed will help? No. (stellarium is very nice!)
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