gnome-shell cpu usage during installation

[drago01]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 19, 2013, at 3:53 PM, John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> wrote:
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>>> Is there a more definitive way to tell if gnome-shell is or isn't offloading onto the GPU?
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>> $  glxinfo  |  grep renderer
>> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.3, 128 bits)
>>    "llvmpipe" is the software CPU (SSE2) renderer
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>> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD REDWOOD
>>    One of the hardware renderers.
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>
> Fedora 18:
> [root at localhost ~]# glxinfo | grep renderer
> Error: unable to open display

1. You don't have to do it as root
2. X has to be running