On Friday, October 19, 2012 05:44:14 AM Ned Slider wrote: > On 19/10/12 02:36, fred smith wrote: > > that all makes perfect sense, except,... why did everything ELSE > > still work? (I admit to not having tried any of the GL screensaver > > demos, or any high-end GL games...) > Only applications using OpenGL would be affected. > If you want to test for yourself, try running 'glxgears'. GoogleEarth is another good test case, as it stresses the driver pretty hard.