Oh thanks! I had seen that page before but didn't look closely. Looks 
like maybe if I disable visual effects in GNOME I might be able to make 
it usable, because some of the lowest end cards on that chart should be 
comparable to the Intel IGP on the Core i5. Or maybe I don't have proper 
drivers installed. But thanks a lot, this should point me in the right 
direction.

-Ibrahim

On 10/12/2010 12:16 AM, John Hsu wrote:
>
> Hi Ibrahim,
>
> If your system does not have sufficient graphics support 
> <http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/SystemRequirements>, you can 
> try and run gazebo headless 
> <http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/Tutorials/RunningSimulatorHeadless>.   
> For reference, with proper GLX support, on a 2.8GHz i7 with nvidia 
> 9800GT, default pr2 simulation launch script 
> <http://www.ros.org/wiki/pr2_simulator/Tutorials/StartingPR2Simulation> runs 
> at roughly between 0.7~1.2X real-time.
>
> John
>
>> On Oct 11, 2010 10:54 PM, "Ibrahim Awwal" <ibrahim.awwal@berkeley.edu 
>> <mailto:ibrahim.awwal@berkeley.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi guys,
>> I'm just wondering, how much does the Gazebo simulation stuff,
>> specifically for the PR2, depend on the GPU? I've got a laptop with
>> hybrid/switchable graphics, i.e. Intel integrated + ATI discrete, and
>> right now ATI's Linux drivers don't support switchable graphics
>> properly, so I'm stuck with the Intel integrated, and I get about 5fps
>> in the gazebo simulation. Also, I frequently get crashes where it says
>> something about OGRE running out of memory. Is it supposed to be much
>> faster, or even basically real time? Thanks,
>>
>> -Ibrahim Awwal
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