From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [GuixSD] Extremely low framerate on desktop. Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:10:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87h93bx1rm.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20170301115449.fmkiv3biepln6oln@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjQVN-0000pF-Hq for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 08:10:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjQVJ-0006Hh-Hq for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 08:10:49 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21089) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjQVJ-0006Gr-B4 for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 08:10:45 -0500 In-reply-to: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Matthew Brooks Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Matthew Brooks writes: > Thanks for the reply; I hadn't even considered the issue of blobs > separately from drivers. > I just double-checked with a Trisquel liveUSB, and while it *does* > show the same "VMWare" and "softpipe" stuff in glxinfo, the > performance is much higher than on my GuixSD install, and it can even > play HD videos without a hitch. So it looks like blobs aren't the > issue. Which is nice, but does mean that it's probably a more > difficult problem to track down. :/ It is possible that this is a problem with our mesa package, which does not use LLVM for the Gallium drivers. It might be worth changing this. Unfortunately, this will result in quite a few rebuilds, so this change would only be available in a few weeks. Could you please send an email to bug-guix@gnu.org requesting that mesa be built with LLVM for better performance of the Gallium drivers? ~~ Ricardo