Carlos E. R. wrote:
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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).
For whatever it's worth: one of the first things I noticed when I installed 10.1 is that glxgears turned s-l-o-w-l-y with whatever the driver number was from nVidia (not the stock nv driver). The slowness did not appear with the newest driver--it was there long ago. The bottom line is that it is possibly either kernel related or SUSE related. At that time I had the FX 5500 card installed (it's now on the 'testbed' computer where the gears are turning s-l-o-w-l-y and showing 2845 fps at resolution of 1024x768 (small window)). Cheers. -- I'm dangerous when I know what I'm doing.