[GRASS5] speed

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Hi all.
Grass 57 is running much faster on one Mandrake 9.2 (PentiumIII/450MHz) than
on several Debian boxes (k7/>1700MHz). This is especially apparent when
digitizing (screen refresh of background raster maps takes much longer). Has
anybody encountered this? Any ideas about possible reasons/solutions?
All the best.
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Grass 57 is running much faster on one Mandrake 9.2
(PentiumIII/450MHz) than on several Debian boxes (k7/>1700MHz). This
is especially apparent when digitizing (screen refresh of background
raster maps takes much longer). Has anybody encountered this? Any
ideas about possible reasons/solutions? All the best.

It's probably due to DRI acceleration often not being turned on by
default in Debian's X. Probably depends on your video card/setup.

At a command prompt try typing 'glxinfo' and look for:

direct rendering: No

Try and get that to say "Yes".

see http://dri.sourceforge.net

Note this is just for displaying graphics; r.mapcalc etc. should be
running much faster on the faster machine.

Hamish

Hamish wrote:

> Grass 57 is running much faster on one Mandrake 9.2
> (PentiumIII/450MHz) than on several Debian boxes (k7/>1700MHz). This
> is especially apparent when digitizing (screen refresh of background
> raster maps takes much longer). Has anybody encountered this? Any
> ideas about possible reasons/solutions? All the best.

It's probably due to DRI acceleration often not being turned on by
default in Debian's X. Probably depends on your video card/setup.

At a command prompt try typing 'glxinfo' and look for:

direct rendering: No

Except for NVIZ, DRI won't make any difference, as it is only used for
OpenGL, not for the core X operations which XDRIVER uses.

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