Basil I would also like to report that Nvidia is also trying to work on some of this as well. Following a few reports of this on this forum about a month ago I went to Nvidia and downloaded their Linux Beta Driver 1.0-9625 and have been using it on both my AMD-64 system and my junky work computer a AMD 1700+ with a Geforce MX-400 card running 1280x1024 at 101Hz vertical. Running GLX-gears at it's native window, with lots of other stuff running in the background, I get 226 f/min, which is about 10% faster than the 8762 driver that I was running. It has been running rock solid since I installed it and comes with Nvidia's control panel as well. Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2006-11-06 at 05:47 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Fred, have you tried going back several versions of the driver to see what results you get? Sorry I'm late in getting back to you Basil. No, I haven't. I have hope that SOON SUSE will get nVidia to fix the driver as it SHOULD be. That is, equal in performance to the 'Bloze driver. I am also watching ATI, as the buyout of ATI by AMD is now consumated. The "word" is, is that AMD IS going to place the driver code under GPL. We'll see if they do. 'Hope so! Intel has already made their drivers open source, so this would put ample on nVidia to get their heads out of the sand bucket.
I have mentioned here that there are reports opened in bugzilla about this, and that they are waiting for your report. If nothing comes, they will close it without doing anything.
And, for the record, the problem seems to be in the linux camp, not the nvidia's.
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