Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Norbert Papke
On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:50, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Composite still isn't the greatest under the 6.9 branch of Xorg
> (and it wasn't that great under Xorg 7.0 either). It might have improved
> since then though in 7.1/7.2.

I am running 7,2 and still cannot get the nvidia drivers to work with 
composite + OpenGL.

-- Norbert.
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Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Garrett Cooper

Norbert Papke wrote:

On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:37, Jim Stapleton wrote:

 Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower
than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers
area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200.
These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup.



/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

[...]

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection


Even though the nvidia drivers claim to support OpenGL with the composite 
extension enabled, my experience has been that it leads to performance 
similar to what you are describing.  Try disabling composite.


Cheers,

-- Norbert.


True. Composite still isn't the greatest under the 6.9 branch of Xorg 
(and it wasn't that great under Xorg 7.0 either). It might have improved 
since then though in 7.1/7.2.


-Garrett
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Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Garrett Cooper

Jim Stapleton wrote:

I have a 7300GT in my computer, and I have run into a couple of errors
trying to set up WoW in Wine (couldn't find copies of the error
elsewhere). Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower
than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers
area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200.
These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup.

What application/method would you suggest to test this? I'd prefer
something that would provide command line information, rather than
"about how fast does this run?"

I checked for the libraries mentioned on nVidias web site, and they
are all in the right spots, which leads me to suspect it's an
xorg.conf error, but I'm not sure. I've attached the xorg.conf file to
the end, just in case.

Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton


/etc/X11/xorg.conf:


[snipped config]


/var/log/Xorg.0.log:


[snipped long log]

Jim,
	I'm not sure about your wine config because wine's a very twitchy beast 
(over the past couple years in particular because of an API change I 
think). All I know is that I was very happy and amazed when I got 
Half-Life 1 to play on my desktop back when I ran KDE in Linux. It was 
astonishing..


	glxgears will provide you with some performance info about your OpenGL 
stats though.


	It also depends on what you're running, what your 7300GT runs for 
shared RAM, etc because I noticed that you mentioned Ti4200 (my first 
nVidia card), and they customarily came stock with 64MB of VRAM, whereas 
the 7300GT cards I can only assume come with around 256MB ~ 368MB. This 
in turn could seriously eat up system RAM if you don't have a lot and 
reduce performance in your machine, like what occurred with me and my 
first desktop after I upgraded to a Geforce 6200 card with 128MB of RAM 
since my system only has 512MB of RAM to allocate. Some things got 
faster, some things stayed the same, and some things got slower..


	It also depends on the vendor that you bought the card from too. nVidia 
contracted their chipset to quite a few 3rd parties after the 5000 
series, and it seems like their graphics quality in some respects has 
become inconsistent, and degraded with some vendors.


-Garrett

-Garrett
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Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Norbert Papke
On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:37, Jim Stapleton wrote:
>  Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower
> than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers
> area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200.
> These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup.

> /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
[...]
> Section "Extensions"
> Option "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection

Even though the nvidia drivers claim to support OpenGL with the composite 
extension enabled, my experience has been that it leads to performance 
similar to what you are describing.  Try disabling composite.

Cheers,

-- Norbert.
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Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Jim Stapleton

I have a 7300GT in my computer, and I have run into a couple of errors
trying to set up WoW in Wine (couldn't find copies of the error
elsewhere). Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower
than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers
area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200.
These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup.

What application/method would you suggest to test this? I'd prefer
something that would provide command line information, rather than
"about how fast does this run?"

I checked for the libraries mentioned on nVidias web site, and they
are all in the right spots, which leads me to suspect it's an
xorg.conf error, but I'm not sure. I've attached the xorg.conf file to
the end, just in case.

Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton


/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])  Tue Feb
6 05:44:08 UTC 2007

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "X.org Configured"
   Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
   InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
   InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
   RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
   ModulePath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
   FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
   FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
   FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
   FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
   FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
   FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
   Load   "extmod"
   Load   "glx"
   Load   "dbe"
   Load   "record"
   Load   "xtrap"
   Load   "type1"
   Load   "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Keyboard0"
   Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse0"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "auto"
   Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
   Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
   Identifier "Monitor0"
   VendorName "SAM"
   ModelName  "SyncMaster"
   HorizSync   30.0 - 81.0
   VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
   Option "DPMS"
EndSection


Section "Extensions"
   Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection



Section "Device"
   Identifier "Card0"
   Driver "nvidia"
   VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
   BoardName  "Unknown Board"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "Screen0"
   Device "Card0"
   Monitor"Monitor0"
   SubSection "Display"
   Viewport0 0
   Depth   24
   Modes  "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
   Viewport0 0
   Depth   16
   Modes  "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
   Viewport0 0
   Depth   15
   Modes  "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
   Viewport0 0
   Depth   8
   Modes  "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
   Viewport0 0
   Depth   4
   Modes  "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
   Viewport0 0
   Modes  "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
   EndSubSection
EndSection





/var/log/Xorg.0.log:


X Window System Version 6.9.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2 i386 [ELF]
Current Operating System: FreeBSD elrond.ameritech.net 6.2-STABLE
FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Fri Mar  2 21:01:49 UTC 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JIM20070302 i386
Build Date: 08 February 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Mar 13 17:47:13 2007
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "X.org Configured"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) |   |-->Device "Card0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(**) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"