I was wondering if someone can assist with a configuration issue that I ran into. On a P4 machine with an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 based video card (ASUS V9560/TD) I cannot seem to enable side-band addressing. Wouldn't be too much of a problem, but fgfs flight sim at times drops below 40 fps, which gets a bit uncomfortable.
$ glxgears -info GL_RENDERER = GeForce FX 5600/AGP/SSE2 GL_VERSION = 1.4.0 NVIDIA 44.96 GL_VENDOR = NVIDIA Corporation GL_EXTENSIONS = 8< ... too long to list here ... >8 14410 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2882.000 FPS 14943 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2988.600 FPS 14945 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2989.000 FPS 14939 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2987.800 FPS Nvidia driver is nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3 (and corresponding glx package is installed). In /etc/modules.conf the following line presumably enables SBA: options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1 Both the card and the motherboard support SBA: $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 8x 4x Registers: 0x1f000e1b:0x1f004112 $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge Host Bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Memory Controller Hub Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 8x 4x Registers: 0x1f004a1b:0x00000912 Yet SBA does not seem to get enabled no matter what I do: $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status Status: Enabled Driver: NVIDIA AGP Rate: 8x Fast Writes: Enabled SBA: Disabled Any suggestions would be much appreciated. How much of a performance gain does SBA provide, anyways? -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
