general question re: performance

[Glenn Becker]

Patrick -

> You need "direct rendering" to be enabled from Xorg.
> Check it with glxinfo
> $ glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0  screen: 0
> direct rendering: Yes <=== must be yes
>
> What is your graphics card ?

It's an ATI Radeon Mobility with 16mb video memory. I got Stellarium to 
behave based on a previous post. Thanks.

> (stellarium is very nice!)

It IS. :^)

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