Bug#400056: planet-penguin-racer: Xorg goes to 99.4% cpu usage on starting game

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi,

(Re-sending since it doesn't appear to have reached the BTS within 24
hours, although some other mails did...)

first of all, thanks for your bugreport.

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 09:04:06AM -0800, Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
> On start up of ppracer Xorg uses 99.4% cpu resources and ppracer gives
> extremely sluggish response.  There is approximately a 2 second lag
> between moving the mouse and the cursor itself moving during setup.
It seems you lack accelerated graphics. Could you please run something
like: ``glxinfo|grep rendering'' to check the status of direct rendering
(DRI), which should tell you whether the accelerated mode is turned on?
If it is active, do other (accelerated) games/3D app work as expected?

> When ppracer is run inside a window rather than full screen I get
> normal keyboard and mouse response outside that window. Other
> applications do not seem to respond sluggishly either even though
> "top" is reporting such high cpu usage.  It's just ppracer that acts
> extremely slugglishly.
I guess that you didn't try any other 3D-demanding games/app. ;)

> I have also tried this with ATI's proprietary drivers and game
> performance was still the same.
I'm not a non-free user, but TTBOMK, fglrx is the name of ATI's
proprietary driver.

Since it looks like this `bug' is actually due to some misconfiguration,
and not a (serious) bug in the package, I'm lowering the severity to
`normal'. Feel free to bump it again in case Direct Rendering is
active.

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois
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