problem with opengl (glxgears) running on cygwin ....

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2014-03-25 09:05, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 20/03/2014 08:41, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> When I try to run glxgears locally, it displays the initial gears,
>> but now they are just frozen.  It doesn't work remotely, either,
>> which was what I tried initially.  It *used* to work -- remotely
>> at 20-30 frames/second (as measured by fraps).
>>
>> Interestingly enough, I get a glx window, -- fraps will display
>> 30 (the right number for my screen refresh rate), in the right corner
>> of the glxgears window... but the gears don't move.
>
> Thanks for pointing out this issue.
>
> I think that currently glxgears doesn't work very well with the combination of
> indirect rendering and vsync-limited buffer swapping, so you are getting 30
> fps, but they aren't useful frames.

This should be fixed in mesa-demos-8.1.0-2.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X


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