Re: gEDA-user: PCB GTK version...

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 26 July 2005 10:47, Robert Thorpe wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> The future is now, and an opengl card is cheap (even in my
>> country). I really have no words when I see the 3d rendering
>> of a board in the Kicad, and sometimes that is really usefull.
>> gEDA and PCB are professional tools and I really dont think
>> that a pre-requisite to them is to run on old machines. MHO,
>> of course.
>
>The problem is that GTK and Qt are over-complicated and badly
> designed. GTK also has too many dependencies.  GTK redraws slowly
> even on my 1.6GHz Athlon (though I haven't tried pcb).  In spite of
> these problems they're a good way to tap into the new functions in
> X below them.
>
Then I would suggest that tuxracer probably also crawls at < 1 frame a 
second too.  This is usually due to the xserver and the video card 
being configured to the lowest common denominator settings, and DRM 
and such are not available.  This can make a 100x difference in the 
speeds.

Log yourself into the xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list.  I found them 
to be very helpfull in readily asking the questions that will usually 
get you going in just a couple of days.  I have an ATI 9200SE/128 meg 
card, a 'utility' card today, but once I got all the stuff set right, 
tuxracer runs at full speed, faster than these ancient (70 year old) 
fingers can react.  My normal screen is 1600x1200x32 bit, on a 
downright elderly NEC 5FG 17" monitor.  Sweet...

Of course all bets are off if your distribution is still using the 
XFree86 drivers.  This FC2 box came with them, and when x.org 
released 6.8.1, I grabbed the tarballs had this machine updated to 
6.8.1 about a week later.  Home built, according to their build 
instructions, and I dare say its 100x more stable than XFree86 code 
has ever been.

>Which is considered most important is up to pcb developers.

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