At earth time Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:54:25 +0000, the following transmission
was received from the entity known as Andy Baxter:

> 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 occasional total lockups which seem to be related to my
> nvidia card - often happens if I kill X the wrong way, and it never used
> to be a problem before i got that card. One problem with nvidia is
> (last i heard) they don't release the card specs or release the
> drivers under a free license, so you're stuck with what they're offering
> if there's a problem.
>
> I'm just downloading the latest driver, so i'll see if that's any better.

got it running - there's now an annoying nvidia logo flash screen when i
start X, and it won't run more than one X server at the same time.
Altogether I think i'll avoid them in future.

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