Turn off vertical sync?!

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Felix Blanke <felixblanke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I start glxgears I'm getting this message:
>
> Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
> approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
>
>
> How can I turn vsync off? It seems to be an default options, because I don't turn it
> on anywhere.
> I tried it with a .drirc in the home of my mainuser. The glxgears msg disappeared,
> but the framerate was still limited to 60.
>
>
> Any suggestions?

set the env var vblank_mode=0

You can also add an entry in your .dirrc, but the driver name has to
be "dri2" for kms IIRC.

Alex

>
>
> Regards,
> Felix
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