Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Does anybody use Windows XP ? Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:18:27 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <53354695$0$2868$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <944a5cd6-c3a4-4555-956d-0e6922bea6e2@googlegroups.com> <79dde85b-280f-44cc-9494-9afd1864034f@googlegroups.com> <7x1txlhlrt.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <29f1c2a7-aaec-44e6-91ca-38fc18dc7691@googlegroups.com> <7xk3bdpycl.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <11291b6b-4b4e-4841-bab8-67c7ba2df912@googlegroups.com> <7xob0pede8.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <312f7e30-5d5a-4e42-8af9-1cb45a589de9@googlegroups.com> <7xtxagzhjn.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <23d2f669-cb6e-46e2-a863-1f4bf4373418@googlegroups.com> <7xtxagibm7.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:29201 On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 01:58:40 -0400, wrote: > [...] > My overall experience is that Linux systems with graphical display > need CPUs with much much more power than the CPUs my laptops have. > I doubt your laptop is insufficiently fast to display video. If an old 500Mhz machine with integrated video can do video, yours should be able to do so too. I used that machine for many, many years. Open a Linux terminal window, type: whereis glxgears If installed (part of Mesa library), it should report something like: glxgears: /usr/bin/glxgears /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears /usr/bin/X11/glxgears /usr/X11/bin/glxgears If glxgears was found, type the following in the terminal, and wait a minute for an update. It should report the FPS your hardware is capable of in the window. vblank_mode=0 glxgears Without the vblank_mode=0, it should cap the FPS near 60. Rod Pemberton