On Saturday 07 August 2004 14:52, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > On Saturday 07 August 2004 19:54, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > I have 10.0O running on a gigabyte KH400 mobo with an AMD 2100 XP > > and the performance seems low since I have seen responses upwards > > of 1500FPS for glxgears which is 5 times better than my system. > > glxgears 08/06/04 > > running gkrellm, noatun,2-konsole terminals, mozilla, real player, > > kontact, gvim, streammg audio, desktop 1152x864. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ glxgears > > 1504 frames in 5.0 seconds = 300.800 FPS > > 1769 frames in 5.0 seconds = 353.800 FPS > > 1773 frames in 5.0 seconds = 354.600 FPS > > 1778 frames in 5.0 seconds = 355.600 FPS > > 1769 frames in 5.0 seconds = 353.800 FPS > > > > glxgears 08/07/04 > > running gkrelm, 1-konsole terminal, desktop 1152x864 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ glxgears > > 1721 frames in 5.0 seconds = 344.200 FPS > > 2736 frames in 5.0 seconds = 547.200 FPS > > 1624 frames in 5.0 seconds = 324.800 FPS > > 1786 frames in 5.0 seconds = 357.200 FPS > > 1788 frames in 5.0 seconds = 357.600 FPS > > If you install the proprietary nvidea driver from Nvidea's site > instead of the default FOSS nv driver you get (better?) support for > the hardware 3d acceleration of your card. I assume you have a > videocard based on a Nvidea chipset. > > Loading the proprietary nvidea driver does 'taint' the kernel: it's > no longer completely open source and problems can only be debugged by > Nvidea. AFAIK kernel developers won't work on problems with a tainted > kernel even if the problems seem unrelated to the module that tainted > the kernel. > > HTH, > > -Frans My video card is a nVidia GeForce-4 MX440 64MB 4X AGP w/ TV-OUT I assume it has a Nvidea chipset. The following tell's me that I have the nvidia driver in the kernel 10.0 Offical.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ locate nvidia /dev/nvidiactl /dev/nvidia0 /proc/driver/nvidia /proc/driver/nvidia/version /proc/driver/nvidia/agp /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status /proc/driver/nvidia/cards /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0 /usr/lib/mplayer/vidix/nvidia_vid.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o <snip>/usr/share/ /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/char/agp/nvidia-agp.ko.gz /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/char/nvidia.ko.gz /lib/dev-state/nvidia0 /lib/dev-state/nvidiactl /sys/cdev/major/nvidia -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux user #363264 http://counter.li.org
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