Re: [pygame] pygame slow on linux (ubuntu)

[Richard Jones <richardjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 16:23, Peter Shinners wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 23:12 -0400, talon spotter wrote:
> > I am writing a space invaders style game, and it works well on
> > windows. When I tried the game
> > under ubuntu linux(dapper), it was noticeably slow. After some
> > googling, I found this:
> > http://www.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl/2006-May/074254.html
>
> I don't think this is specifically a Ubuntu problem. I've been running
> Ubuntu awhile. It's been a long time since I was worried about my
> framerates under pygame.

Me too.

I suspect though that the "generic intel onboard video card" is the problem. 
The X11 drivers for it are probably not very optimal.


    Richard