New Nvidia drivers. (4191)

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

I emerged the new driver too, just before typing this and straight after an rsync.
I will probably add to the confusion by telling you guys that my 2d performance has slightly improved!! (or at least not slower). Especially unhiding windows in kde is now instant! I have not added the renderaccel option (yet). Unfortunately they havent fixed the smooth scaling in the y-direction for video playback yet as it still produces a staircase effect on my screen (how do I fix this? works fine in windows 98, not nice for TV movie viewing.)

My hardware :
Duron 900
Nvidia TNT 2 pro

Gentoo 1.2 (good old fast

)
LOLO 2.4.20-r1-pre2 kernel

PS my glxgears remained the same.

lx · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 2:38 pm Post subject: Re: Bad

nempo · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 3:08 pm Post subject:

dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

morck · Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 4:51 pm Post subject:

the speed has really increased ... at least for me ... but i don't know if i can live with that 5-minutes-delay before the Xserver starts.
with the old driver it was only 5s ....

cya,
morck

suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

Looks like this is a problem with gnome2, just tried KDE 3.1rc5 works fast as ever, while Gnome 2 is just crawling along. Maybe others can proof that.

Raccroc · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2002 Posts: 46 Location: Austin

Has the name of the module changed?

I just installed kernel 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 and while doing so I emerged nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel. Everything went fine except loading my NVdriver. Upon further investigation, I found it didn't install NVdriver, rather it installed "nvidia.o".

Nevermind...answered on another thread, plus found the answer when running etc-update.

sindre · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 315 Location: Norway

I'm not notising the 2d being slower, when enabling RenderAccel I only get lockups.

P4 2.4 GHz
256MB Samsung@380 mhz
GeForce2 MX
2.5.50 kernel

johnio · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2002 Posts: 46 Location: Boston, MA

I am having mized success. 2d performace comes and goes.

Sometimes it works great, other times not at all.

There does not seem to be any praticality to it.

zez · Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 6:30 am Post subject:

I'm on an AthlonXP 1600+ w/ GF3Ti200. 2D performance and 3D performance is about the same. In glxgears, 3D is slightly slower, but in real world performance, there's no real difference. Since I'm not running into any problems so far, I guess I'll keep this set.

fuxored · n00b Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 71

I've not noticed any slowdowns in my 2d at all. 3d got a small boost, but for the most part performance is about the same here. Can't say much about stability yet, but seems ok so far.

This is on a p3 500
geforce 2mx 64m
448m ram

hook · Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 8:12 am Post subject:

has anybody cosidered that it could be the wm that causes slow-downs?
maybe if everyone sent the wm they are using and tell if it runs better or slower would help
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HotShotDJ · Apprentice Joined: 06 Nov 2002 Posts: 166

I, too, upgraded to the new Nvidia driver.. yesterday, I think it was... well, I know I've slept once since I installed it.

I've had no problems at all. I'm not a gamer, so 3D performace hasn't been a big issue for me anyway. As a few others have commented, 2D performance has either remained unchanged or actually improved (placebo effect, perhaps :wink:

)

Kernel = 2.4.20 vanilla w/ Win4Lin patches
WM = KDE 3.1_rc5
CPU = AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Video Card = TNT2 M64

lx · Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 10:05 am Post subject: Re: Gnome 2

perry · Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 3:50 pm Post subject:

I was messing around yesterday, playing with a development kernel and gentoo-sources. On both, performance seemed to degrade. Moving a window around in KDE seemed chopped w/ the new drivers. It's pretty smooth w/ the old ones.

I get terrible glxgears "scores". Mid-200's w/ the new drivers, mid 500's w/ the old. This is on a P3-700 w/ 512MB of RAM and a GF2 MX card. I suspect something in my setup is really screwed up to get numbers like that as I look around at other people's numbers.

MrJ412 · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Shawnee, KS

Just to add my experience:

PNY GForce2 MX 400
PII 350Mhz

Had to give the new drivers a go, and turned RenderAccel on in my config. This resulted in X completely locking up after about a minute. Turning it off has things running smoothly again, however as others have noticed, moving windows around is a bit choppy.
May go back to the last version...

yokem55 · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 360 Location: Oregon

Pigeon · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 307

perry · Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 9:47 pm Post subject:

AGPGART in the kernel, VIA chipset. Stuff in /proc indicates the same. 2X AGP.

From glxinfo:

jstuart · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 57

It's working well here. No 2D slowdowns. ANd I think I've gained about 25 to 30 FPS in full screen mode.

Machine config:

Athlon XP 1600+
GeForce 2 MX 400
512 Mb Ram
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yokem55 · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 360 Location: Oregon

Okay, the 2d performance died on me. Not cool. A reboot seemed to fix it but only for a little while. I reverted to the 3123's.

Edit: Okay figured out my slowdown: my lm_sensors module was fubaring the system, back using the 4191's.

alshain · Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 1:46 pm Post subject:

yokem55 · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 360 Location: Oregon

The w83781d module wasn't configured right for the winbond derived ASUS chip on my motherboard. It was misreading the chip and was hammering the system with alarms. As I don't have my pc speaker hooked up, I didn't hear the alarms, and ps aux didn't show any runaway apps. So it took a little while to diagnose. What clued me on was that the 3123 drivers had the same thing and it seemed only be happening once I'd gotten the sensor modules loaded.