nvida: glxgears at less than *10 fps!* :-(

mr-simon

Hi,

I just ripped out a radeon card that was *really* annoying me, and got a cheap-and-cheerful NVidia FX5200 to replace it with.

I compiled nvidia-kernel, and reconfigured xorg. It all works, but glxgears gives me a framerate of under 10fps!! :cry:

I tried with xorg 6.7.whatever, and then upgraded to 6.8.0. Same results.

I'm running kernel 2.6.9-rc2-mm2 and I'm using gcc-3.4.

Direct rendering is enabled. AGP is loaded. But it's so slow!

Here are the details... (sorry about the length)

glxgears

Vidar · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject:

That is odd...

After a quick glance at your config files, I guess you could remove the:

Section "dri"
Mode 0666
EndSection

and the

VideoRam 131072

lines. You shouldn't need to touch anything with dri in the x config file, and videoram should be autodetected correctly.

And as for the obvious solutions, you're not running glxgears while say compiling anything (or anything else that eats the cpu) are you?
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mr-simon · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject:

caravela · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 118

did u emerged nvidia-glx ? or did u try opengl-update nvidia ?
also get rid of anything about DRI on xorg.conf or in kernel since u don't need that anymore since u got a nvidia card

neerolyte · Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:33 am Post subject:

thanks for the tip about removing DRI, more then doubled my fps...can an admin highlight this thread or something? because a few people seem to be having the same problem.

monicajae · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 363 Location: Dorset, VT

I get a slow glxgears interface, but then when I click on another window to the foreground, the fps quadruples and the gears are turning like they are going thru the roof! Here is my output:

Xaid · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:42 am Post subject:

I have the same card as you and I get about 1100 fps in glxgears with a couple of aterms running, gaim, mozilla and openbox.

quick specs of my system are:
Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz with HT on
512 DDR ram

I think you should be getting at least a 1000 fps but I could be wrong..

MagnusBerg

chief1983 · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 9 Location: New Melle

That was funny, because I was getting thousands of frames a second, until I took out the DRI module, then it dropped to 30, and that was with the window at the default small size. Stretched full screen I was getting 500fps still with the dri and glx both loading. Any idea why that might happen?

Watchoo · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:05 am Post subject:

First of all, glxgears is not a benchmark, its there just to check if the 3d acceleration is working.

Second of all, setting up nvidia is described here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml

And last but not least some tips:
- get rid of unneeded crap in the kernel ..(like rivatnt support and so) everithing is handlet by the driver,
- make sure to have compiled these as modules in the kernel: agpgart and also for 2.6 version kernel users (for example if you have nforce chipset) nvidia-agp, (or via-agp, etc....)
-make sure these modules, and also the nvidia module, are loaded.
-you can try using agpgart or internal driver for agp from the nvidia driver (take a look in the driver readme file how's done)
-after driver installation, don't forget to make "opengl-update nvidia"
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