On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 17:05 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
Someone please open a bug report and post the number of it here, so everybody who's seeing degrading performance (and also who isn't) can attach his numbers.
I've now installed nvidia's driver and it seems to be working. No crashes so far at least. Here are my results. I don't know whether this is good or bad, so I won't open a ticket but will be glad to add these results to an existing ticket. Has anybody opened a ticket? Somebody who said they had a slow or unstable system? Cheers, Dave 1280 x 1024 24-bit full-screen glxgears 564 frames in 5.0 seconds = 112.800 FPS default window size glxgears 6938 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1387.600 FPS $ glxgears -info GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS=4096/4096 GL_RENDERER = GeForce 6200/AGP/SSE2 GL_VERSION = 2.0.2 NVIDIA 87.76 GL_VENDOR = NVIDIA Corporation AMD Athlon64 3000, 1.5 GB memory SUSE 9.3 XFX GEFORCE 6200 AGP8X 256 MB DDR2 GF 6200 256MB DDR2 TV DVI Ver F.4 Part # PV-T44A-WANG (connected via VGA cable) ============================================== X Window System Version 6.8.2 Current Operating System: Linux piglet 2.6.11.4-21.14-default #1 Thu Aug 24 09:51:41 UTC 2006 x86_64 (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation unknown chipset (0x0221) rev 161, Mem @ 0xce000000/24, 0xb0000000/28, 0xcd000000/24, BIOS @ 0xcfee0000/17 (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8776 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8776 Module class: X.Org Video Driver (II) NVIDIA X Driver 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 21:56:44 PDT 2006 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 6200 at PCI:1:0:0 (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 262144 kBytes (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.44.a2.10.81 (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 6200 at PCI:1:0:0: (--) NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (CRT-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Samsung SyncMaster (CRT-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-0 (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes: (II) NVIDIA(0): "1280x1024" (II) NVIDIA(0): "1152x864" (II) NVIDIA(0): "1024x768" (II) NVIDIA(0): "800x600" (II) NVIDIA(0): "640x480" (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 1024 (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (85, 86); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config option (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024" (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled (II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL =========================================== $ ls -l /dev/nv* crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 2006-10-23 22:09 /dev/nvidia0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 0 2005-03-19 22:01 /dev/nvidia00 crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 1 2005-03-19 22:01 /dev/nvidia01 crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 2 2005-03-19 22:01 /dev/nvidia02 crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 3 2005-03-19 22:01 /dev/nvidia03 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 1 2006-10-23 22:09 /dev/nvidia1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 2 2006-10-23 22:09 /dev/nvidia2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 3 2006-10-23 22:09 /dev/nvidia3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 4 2006-10-23 22:09 /dev/nvidia4 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 5 2006-10-23 22:09 /dev/nvidia5 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 6 2006-10-23 22:09 /dev/nvidia6 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 7 2006-10-23 22:09 /dev/nvidia7 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 2006-10-23 22:09 /dev/nvidiactl crw------- 1 root root 10, 144 2005-03-19 22:01 /dev/nvram $ env | grep NV --- returns nothing $ groups users root dialout video piv --- so I do have access to the devices $ glxinfo|grep rendering direct rendering: Yes $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86_64 Kernel Module 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 21:53:43 PDT 2006 GCC version: gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0 Model: GeForce 6200 IRQ: 209 Video BIOS: 05.44.a2.10.81 Card Type: AGP DMA Size: 32 bits DMA Mask: 0xffffffff # lspci -n | grep 0300 0000:01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0221 (rev a1) ============================================= no older drivers (that worked :) haven't tried any GL apps yet