Re: [Pipmak-Users] Pipmak won't work on my system

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Hello Aidan

> I am using Debian etch on a 2.6 GHz x86 machine 
> with 512 MB RAM.  I am able to build it, and run it, but it runs so 
> slowly that the mouse can take up to 10 seconds to respond, only to 
> freeze again.  My father is running Ubuntu feisty on a machine with less 
> processor power than mine, and it runs fine for him, perfectly smoothly.

That sounds like you only get software rendering, while your father has 
hardware rendering. Try running "glxinfo | grep direct" - it says 
"direct rendering: Yes" if you have hardware acceleration.

I have never investigated why Pipmak runs so incredibly slow with Mesa 
software rendering. Curiously, it gets much faster when anything is 
displayed on the Pipmak terminal - e.g. press the L key to bring up the 
Lua console and type something. As long as the text is visible, I get a 
halfways usable frame rate, as soon as it goes away, it's down to 
several seconds per frame again.

  -Christian