On Monday 20 January 2003 18:15, Cleary_Mike@emc.com wrote:
Well, I finally got 3D to work in 8.1 using the 3123 nvidia drivers. I'm getting about 2500 fps in gears, so no complaints there. But whenever I "startx" from the console, it take 30 - 35 seconds before the nvidia splash screen appears.
Same here with some older hardware (see output of `lspci -vv' at
the end of this email). Switching from X to a virtual console and
then back again to X shows a considerable delay as well. I suspect this
delay is not a "normal" delay caused by bloated software: it seems
to lock up the hardware for some time. Do for example a `find /',
and while that is running run `startx'. You'll notice that the
rumbling of the disk (caused by find) will stop for a while, and
continues after the nVidia splash screen is shown. I find this very
annoying. I suspect this will also ruin an ongoing sync action to
my Palm, which runs via a serial port (not tried yet though).
Another thing that I see with the nVidia driver: scrolling text
is _extremely_ slow! Doing an `ll' in my home directory (containing
370 files/directories) takes about 15 seconds, and yet `time ll'
tells me it took only half a second. It seems that X (or whatever)
cannot cope with the output of ll.
Not using the nVidia driver makes text scrolling normal again (so
much for acceleration!), but then I cannot watch mpeg/avi files in
a decent frame rate.
Sorry for this "me too" without any further help. I did try finding
a solution for this, but up to now no result.
Paul.
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lspci output:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [Riva TnT] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Viper V550 with TV out
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-