
Curiously I have a similar issue. I get fairly slow framecount unless I log in as root. Then I get about 20 times the number of frames per second. Any suggestions/similarities?
I wanted to check FlightGear, therefore I had to activate 3D and accel. I downloaded the newest nvidia driver, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8776-pkg1.run. I modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the same way I had done previously in 9.3 where it worked, and rebooted.
I try "glxgears", small window:
cer@nimrodel:~> glxgears 3596 frames in 5.0 seconds = 719.072 FPS 4023 frames in 5.0 seconds = 804.191 FPS 4011 frames in 5.0 seconds = 802.194 FPS
full screen
697 frames in 5.0 seconds = 139.220 FPS 652 frames in 5.0 seconds = 130.221 FPS
The gears turn slowly, and the main cpu soars to 100%. This is not normal.
-- JDL

Athlon XP 2200+, 1G ram, nvidia Gforce4 MX 420, nvidia driver 1.0-8774 glxgears small window: 6030 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1206.000 FPS 20435 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4087.000 FPS 41964 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8392.800 FPS 41435 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8287.000 FPS 40320 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8064.000 FPS full screen: 3157 frames in 5.0 seconds = 631.400 FPS 2092 frames in 5.0 seconds = 418.400 FPS 3345 frames in 5.0 seconds = 669.000 FPS 3349 frames in 5.0 seconds = 669.800 FPS 3349 frames in 5.0 seconds = 669.800 FPS Never have had any problems (except when monitoring the cpu tells glxgears using 100% of cpu) Still have no problems to open up lots of proggys when playing a game. On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 20:52 +0100, John D Lamb wrote:
Curiously I have a similar issue. I get fairly slow framecount unless I log in as root. Then I get about 20 times the number of frames per second.
Any suggestions/similarities?
I wanted to check FlightGear, therefore I had to activate 3D and accel. I downloaded the newest nvidia driver, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8776-pkg1.run. I modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the same way I had done previously in 9.3 where it worked, and rebooted.
I try "glxgears", small window:
cer@nimrodel:~> glxgears 3596 frames in 5.0 seconds = 719.072 FPS 4023 frames in 5.0 seconds = 804.191 FPS 4011 frames in 5.0 seconds = 802.194 FPS
full screen
697 frames in 5.0 seconds = 139.220 FPS 652 frames in 5.0 seconds = 130.221 FPS
The gears turn slowly, and the main cpu soars to 100%. This is not normal.
-- JDL
/Peo Registered Linux user #432116 http://counter.li.org/ http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

On Sunday 22 October 2006 21:52, John D Lamb wrote:
Curiously I have a similar issue. I get fairly slow framecount unless I log in as root. Then I get about 20 times the number of frames per second.
Any suggestions/similarities?
add your user to the group "video", log out and log back in

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-10-22 at 22:35 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
Any suggestions/similarities?
add your user to the group "video", log out and log back in
Mine belongs. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFO/fztTMYHG2NR9URAvt/AJ41WQUDyi5/9Dy353MIklsSrl8KjQCffqcp 8bdMV6TgcBGj+YeeeWbSUz0= =nJbR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Monday 23 October 2006 01:00, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2006-10-22 at 22:35 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
Any suggestions/similarities?
add your user to the group "video", log out and log back in
Mine belongs.
Then make sure your nvidia binary driver is properly installed. Perhaps try reinstalling it

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-10-23 at 01:07 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
Mine belongs.
Then make sure your nvidia binary driver is properly installed. Perhaps try reinstalling it
I have done that several times, with more than one version of the driver, and using diferent options. Worse, it crashes my whole system, even locking it hard some time later, when using it, doing operations like window resizing or changing the TV out from overlay to capture or viceversa. Full logs were posted. There is something in SuSE 10.1 or the current binary drivers that is bad. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFO/3XtTMYHG2NR9URAhaGAJ9IcmLPVIYvQl80fh0lUIVJ6l02DACfX3Os ojiuTbnIp1PyZs7WeLfszUk= =Hhi+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 01:25 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Then make sure your nvidia binary driver is properly installed. Perhaps try reinstalling it
Worse, it crashes my whole system, even locking it hard some time later, when using it, doing operations like window resizing or changing the TV out from overlay to capture or viceversa.
Users were all in video group and nvidia correctly installed. However... I've now discovered that it's only my account that gets relatively slow glxgears---the only account where I copied almost everything directly from SuSE 9.3. So, most likely, some setting I copied is causing the problem an probably I can fix it easily when I take time to work out what it is. It might be worthwhile testing everything on a new, empty user account. -- JDL

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-10-23 at 07:53 +0100, John D Lamb wrote:
I've now discovered that it's only my account that gets relatively slow glxgears---the only account where I copied almost everything directly from SuSE 9.3. So, most likely, some setting I copied is causing the problem an probably I can fix it easily when I take time to work out what it is.
Ah!!! :-(
It might be worthwhile testing everything on a new, empty user account.
Ugh... I'll try to do that. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFPI7MtTMYHG2NR9URAjUiAKCQwGSU072tkmCWJIw8z6sGHJgnIACdEZp6 MQX7zvtVaXAQRzPtKcVNGvo= =VfmJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Oct 23, 06 07:53:09 +0100, John D Lamb wrote:
I've now discovered that it's only my account that gets relatively slow glxgears---the only account where I copied almost everything directly from SuSE 9.3. So, most likely, some setting I copied is causing the problem an probably I can fix it easily when I take time to work out what it is.
In that case especially check your environment for _NV* variables, and check your access rights to /dev/nv* (should be ok, if glxinfo says direct rendering: yes).
It might be worthwhile testing everything on a new, empty user account.
Definitely. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 16:42 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
On Oct 23, 06 07:53:09 +0100, John D Lamb wrote:
I've now discovered that it's only my account that gets relatively slow glxgears---the only account where I copied almost everything directly from SuSE 9.3. So, most likely, some setting I copied is causing the problem an probably I can fix it easily when I take time to work out what it is.
In that case especially check your environment for _NV* variables, and check your access rights to /dev/nv* (should be ok, if glxinfo says direct rendering: yes).
I checked all those. They are OK, though I set an unusually large number of environment variables, so some other setting might be causing the problem.
It might be worthwhile testing everything on a new, empty user account.
I did. I fact it work's on my son's accout, which is one reason I didn't notice there was a problem for so long and why I've not put a huge ammount of effort into solving it. He uses accelated graphics all the time; I seldom use it. -- JDL

On Sunday 22 October 2006 20:52, John D Lamb wrote:
Curiously I have a similar issue. I get fairly slow framecount unless I log in as root. Then I get about 20 times the number of frames per second.
Any suggestions/similarities?
Pruned
-- JDL
This is beginning to sound much like a problem i had some time ago now .. 2D was fine but 3D was slow the fix was very easy can the video card and replace it with a new one not had any more problems since .. Pete . PS for those that seem to object to my post well it's easy DONT READ EM BOYS know what i mean ..
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Anders Johansson
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John D Lamb
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