Hi,

Bipin George Mathew wrote:
> I am running the latest version of metacity-clutter on Ubuntu 8.10 and I
> get the following warning: "Not using GLX TFP". I do understand that
> without GLX TFP, the performance of metacity-clutter will be affected;
> Few questions:
> (1) I am trying to understand the cause for this warning: Is it directly
> related to the my graphics card/driver? 

Yes.

> I am on an intergrated Intel
> 82945G/GZ controller. I read that hardware accl. GLX TFP is supported
> only on NVidia cards.

On Intel HW, you can get turn TFP on by exporting
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1; how well the TFP will work depends on how
recent your drivers is; at least in theory it should work OK on a 945
card with the current drivers.

> (2) If yes for (1), can I get clutter to use GLX TFP by running a
> software emulation? MESA?

IIRC yes, but the last time I tried using Mesa, the OpenGL performance
was abysmal.

> (3) What is the fallback in metacity-clutter if GLX TFP is not available
> - XShm?

If XShm is supported, Clutter uses XShm, it not it falls back further
onto XGetImage.

Tomas

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