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The sole purpose for my RPi is to use the DVI out functionality and I am going to rip apart a 19" LCD HD screen and build it into my own frame.

I already did this with a very old notebook a few year ago, and being a huMAN, I want bigger and better now!

I tried the GL slideshows in Debian Squeeze from the RPi site, but that gives me 0.1FPS on any option. I suspect its because X is not using the OpenGL API yet. (as pointed out It is OpenGL:ES)

Then, I went and installed the XBMC distro and was very nicely surprised that it can play avi movies encoded in xvid out of the box. It was a bit slow in the UI, but it's really fascinating. There is a built-in screensaver there, which is a lot faster, but there is very little to no control over the settings of the screensaver.

Is there something I can just load to use OpenGL screensavers for the RPi, in any distro and any configuration? I am not scared to go into hectic installs.

tlhIngan
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You need to use OpenGL:ES screensavers, not OpenGL ones.

OpenGL is a rendering framework. OpenGL:ES is the version for Mobile devices. Anything that uses OpenGL will run painfully slowly because the Pi doesn't support it, so anything that wants to do accelerated graphics needs to be modified to use OpenGL:ES instead.

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