glxgear and glxinfo confusion

[Joe Zeff]

On 01/23/2012 11:42 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> I always found the output of glxgears quite confusing, to say the least. If
> you think logically --- your screen displays a picture 60 times in one second,
> and some graphics cards (like Intel) render the frames in the same rythm, to
> display the images of the gears animation 60 times per second.

Motion Pictures are shown at 32 fps and nobody complains about 
flickering, but there are people who claim that anything less than 70 
fps on their monitor flickers.  I've always considered them the video 
equivalent of the audiophule, who claims he can hear the difference 
between regular cables and gold ones even after a scope shows the output 
to be identical and he's seen the display of the two sine waves.