[ Please try to turn off the HTML part of your messages. ] On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:33:53 +0000, Chris S wrote: > 2009/1/10 Adrian Levi <adrian.l...@gmail.com> > > 2009/1/10 Chris S <cbs10...@googlemail.com>: > > > > > Ok, well still got bad frame rate any ideas, in reply to adrian.levi > > (thank > > > you for your encouragement too) in previous post I haven't installed a > > video > > > driver myself other than the one selected on install. I searched synaptic > > > for 'video drivers' and got loads of things installed but not sure if I'm > > > using the correct one, do you think this could be where the problem is, > > it > > > would make sense. anyway thank you to all who have replied. Any advice or > > > shall i start googling installing video drivers and get back to you all? > > > > I think nvidia-glx-legacy is what you need. > > > > This page will show you how and walk you through the steps. > > > > http://desiato.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html<http://desiato.tinyplanet.ca/%7Elsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html>
> Good morning, ok firstly thank you for all you help last night. I Just > successfully installed nvidia-glx-legacy from the how-to that was kindly > given, all stages completed with no error and I now get the nvidia logo when > X starts but no effect at all on the old problem, frame rate still about a > frame a second. That sounds like the nvidia driver is working properly; nevertheless we should check if there are any problems recorded in the Xorg log. Please run this command in an X terminal and post the output here: grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log Other possible bottlenecks to consider are CPU load and hard disk access. AFAIK, the older versions of the flashplugin on Linux are not very efficient in using hardware video acceleration, so most of the rendering workload is put on the CPU. Check the CPU load with 'top' or 'htop' while you play a flash video. It is possible that Etch's flashplugin is too inefficient to work nicely on your hardware. To check your hard disk access speed, you can use the 'hdparm' command. Another thing to try is to play a flash video with mplayer, which is usually smarter in using video acceleration. While you have a youtube video open in your browser, you should see the video file in /tmp/; it will be called FlashXXXXXX, where XXXXXX is a random string. It should be possible to play this file like this (replace XXXXXX): mplayer /tmp/FlashXXXXXX (Don't hesitate to ask for clarification and further details if necessary.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
