In message <20020219002646.VDUI24693.priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net@there>,
 sudog writes:
>Yes. As far I was able to find out, we don't do hardware acceleration under X 
>very well. Does anything else using the opengl/direct rendering of your XFree 
>server work at ungodly speeds? How about the gears screensaver? Is that 
>super-fast? Is SDL the ONLY thing slowing OpenGL performance down?

Haven't tried the gears streamsaver.  glclock was the other thing I tried, and
it's *very* smooth.  I'll set pkgsrc to building me some screen savers.

-s