Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2006-10-25 at 17:35 +0200, I wrote:
The Wednesday 2006-10-25 at 16:31 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
You probably want to file a bug report. Seems like something's broken in the driver. I still want to do more testings: I'd like to try that driver in an older distro like 9.3, that I still have installed in another partition. I have the impression it will run faster. It's worth checking.
The worst thing is not that it is slow: in my system, it crashes too easily.
More people are reporting similar problems in this list and elsewhere.
I have tried in that 9.3 in another partition: as I feared, the same driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8776-pkg1.run) works very fast and it doesn't crash. I played tux race for an hour and it was fast and smooth. The glxgears turned so fast I couldn't count the turns (in 10.1, I could, easily).
Some days back I had also tried older drivers in 10.1 and they were slow. It's not a problem only with the newest driver.
Therefore, there is something wrong in the 10.1 distro or the kernel or whatever that makes the NVidia drivers work slow. Or there is an incompatibility amongst both. Not only slow, but unstable, which is worst.
I seem to remember not seeing 10.1 on the supported distros list for this driver, but I can't remember where did I see this list, unfortunately. 9.3 was listed.
I can report all this in bugzilla with all the data you requested - if the report exists already, please tell me the number. But not tonight, it's 2:40 AM.
Unfortunately, I don't have the same data for 10.1 and I don't like to try again, because inevitably it crashes: some times hard, I lost some data. I may have partial reports from my previous tests, though.
In my opinion the problem you are seeing is an incompatibility issue that surfaced with the latest rpm for the x-server talking to the NVIDIA driver. That is I never had problems with the NVIDIA driver until I installed the new X-SERVER. I am hoping that 10.2 will fix it but that is just a wish. The problem for me is a complete hang of the keyboard - mouse and screen when two separate login sessions via F7 and F8 are switching back and forth for 8-20 hrs. I can remotely login and do whatever I want at that point but in the end a reboot is the only solution as init 3 -> init 5 doesn't work nor does and init 1 and back to init 5. For now I have killed the 3D nvidia driver and gone back to the nv driver and I don't see the above problem.