Hi!

I have Nvidia Gforce4 MX 420 with the driver 1.0-8774.
When I run glxgears I can see that cpu usage is 100%.
If I then start for example the game Neverball everything runs fine.
I also can start up a couple of more programs everything still running fine.

This couldn´t be done if glxgears was realy using 100 % of the cpu ???
Or does it grab as much as it can get and let loose when asked ?

I have never had any problems.


On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 16:39 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: 
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The Monday 2006-10-23 at 17:18 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:


> Even though I merely glanced over your original post, one thing which
> now comes to mind is that I believe you mentioned there that you are
> using an MX400 card and the results you got were for that card? Am I
> correct?

Right.

> 
> If so then you had better read the blurb on the nVidia site about what
> is supported by the latest drivers. I am pretty sure that the MX 400 is
> not supported and that one has to go back to a much earlier driver for
> the MX 400 card. 


It is supported, it is listed here:

 http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html:

               Back      Supported Products List
                         GeForce2 Go                                0x0112
                         GeForce2 Integrated GPU                    0x01A0
                         GeForce2 MX 100/200                        0x0111
       ===>              GeForce2 MX/MX 400                         0x0110
                         GeForce3                                   0x0200

The log says it detects it as:

  (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce2 MX/MX 400 at PCI:1:0:0


> Some months ago someone had a question about the MX
> 400/(?)440 and I pointed this out to him at the time.

Yes, I read that mail the other day, I searched the list. Anyhow, I did 
try the "legacy driver", x86-1.0-7184 (published las august), and it is as 
slow, with the added problem that text mode doesn't work after starting 
graphics: I only see strange colours.

> 
> (BTW, I am using a 6600 card and glxgears is showing ~3891 fps.)

And the main cpu usage? Mine goes to 100%, and that is what I don't 
consider normal. I can't be certain, of course, but I think I got more two 
years back than now with the same hardware.

I'll have to go back and try in SuSE 9.3 or earlier.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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