[rescue] desperately need a window manager

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:13:52AM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> oh, my, god.  it's AWESOME.  and at the cost of a cheapish PC to boot.
> that atlantis screensaver of whatever it is kicks butt.  GL screensaver rock.
> i think TRAM would help out a little bit, but not at $300 a pop (best price
> i've found yet)
> 
> so, anyone run quake2 on an SGI box?  why is it slower than a 286 on my
> Octane?  250Mhz r10k CPU, SI graphics.  dog slow.  so slow, the MENU is
> unuseable.  that just doesn't seem right for some reason.  any tips on making
> it perform the way it should?

I believe you told us why Quake2 is problematic in the previous paragraph.
Lack of TRAM.  The software renderer might work decently, but I think that
using it would require custom compiling from the linux source, and it 
wouldn't really be all that great either.

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Joshua D. Boyd