On Tuesday, 19 December 2006 9:42, Jakob wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a strage problem, some month ago I bougth a new laptop (Core2duo > 1,83 Ghz + Geforce 7600). > The first thing I did was installing gentoo, and after X was finished I > installed the nvidia-driver an run glxgears to see the difference between > my old desktop and my new laptop. > I got about 10000.000 FPS and was happy. I continued installing the system > and built some new kernels to get all the things working like wlan etc. > some days later I run glxgears again and was shocked of the glxgears > output: > > 31189 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6237.635 FPS > 31163 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6232.600 FPS > 31178 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6235.511 FPS > > > since this time I never got more than 6400.000 FPS, I `ve tried to install > newer versions of nvidia-driver and the nvidia-driver from the nvidia page > but its not going over 6400.000 FPS. After some time I thougth maybe it > didnt run faster the first time and I was remembering wrong but than I saw > a forum entry from someone with the same notebook running fedoracore and he > postet his putput of glxgears and got about 10000.000 FPS. > > Has anyone any ideas what the problem could be??? > I dont want to install gentoo again because everything else works fine. > > Thanks and Regards > > Jakob
The problem is that glxgears is not a benchmark. Run some real programs and if you have performance problems with those, then you have something to worry about. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
