At earth time Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:02:38 -0800, the following transmission
was received from the entity known as jayachandran kamaraj:
> Hi all,
> My machine configuration is as follows
> P4, 1.6GHz, Sony vaio desktop with 512 MB Ram and Nvidia TNT2 Video
> Card.
> I am running both Redhat 9 and debian woody unstable. I have 2.4.20
> kernel for redhat and 2.6.1 kernel for debian.
> Till 2.4.20 i was happy because the "nv" driver provided by xfree gave
> a performance of 220 fps (with the help of glxgears) and when i
> install binary driver from nvidia it will go upto 287 fps.
> Even though it looks smaller when i read some mails in which people
> claim that they get 1000 fps or something like that, but i was happy
> to see some difference in the fps between the xfree driver and
> original driver provided by the card manufacturer.
> Back to the problem, after i installed 2.6.1 in debian first i had
> some problem in installing nvidia binary because it complained about
> the modversions.h file and sometime later i found about the patch from
> http:://www.minion.de and used them and installed them as per their
> instructions, i.e., the debian way of make-kpkg.
> Now the nvidia driver gives me just 60 fps with the new kernel and
> nvidia binary driver, whereas the xfree driver still gives me 220 fps.
> If i go back to rh9 and check, nvidia driver gives 290 fps. FYI i use
> current nvidia driver 5336.
>
> thanks
>
> jc
I've been getting system lockups, probably caused by the nvidia graphics
driver (RIVA TNT2 64 card). The crashes all seem to be from doing
something with X, like a ctrl-alt-backspace GUI shutdown, so I think it's
that. I've just installed the latest driver to see if its any better.
Maybe it will work OK, but I'm not impressed with it:
- now I'm getting a 2 second nvidia logo flash screen whenever i start X.
- the driver is released as binary only, and is a generic one for all
nvidia cards, so the kernel module and XFree86 drivers are huge (1.9 M and
559 K).
- they don't release the card specs either, from what i last heard, so
no-one can write an free driver.
altogether I'll give them a miss in the future.
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