Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-11 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thursday 11 November 2010, Dale wrote: I just checked again, it is still working. I'm liking that I can watch a video whenever I want instead of when it decides to work. ;-) I also have good news to report. I upgraded to Qt 4.7.0 and my xserver is a reformed character! It sits and chugs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:39 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Robin Atwood did opine thusly: On Thursday 11 November 2010, Dale wrote: I just checked again, it is still working. I'm liking that I can watch a video whenever I want instead of when it decides to work. ;-) I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:39 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Robin Atwood did opine thusly: On Thursday 11 November 2010, Dale wrote: I just checked again, it is still working. I'm liking that I can watch a video whenever I want instead of when it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-11 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I did a test just then and my video was slow again. This is what I get now. r...@smoker / # glxgears Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. 677 frames in 5.6 seconds = 120.183 FPS 1 frames in 7.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:49 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Dale wrote: I did a test just then and my video was slow again. This is what I get now. r...@smoker / # glxgears Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:49 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Dale wrote: I did a test just then and my video was slow again. This is what I get now. r...@smoker / # glxgears Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-10 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: According to top, gkrellm and cat /proc/meminfo there is no swap in use. I have 2Gbs of ram and have swappiness set to 20 or 30. I rarely use swap unless I am compiling something huge, OOo comes to mind, or have a LOT of images open with GIMP. I did check to make sure tho.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:18 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Dale wrote: According to top, gkrellm and cat /proc/meminfo there is no swap in use. I have 2Gbs of ram and have swappiness set to 20 or 30. I rarely use swap unless I am compiling something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:18 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Dale wrote: According to top, gkrellm and cat /proc/meminfo there is no swap in use. I have 2Gbs of ram and have swappiness set to 20 or 30. I rarely use swap unless I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 08 November 2010, Dale wrote: Robin Atwood wrote: On Saturday 06 November 2010, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: This is getting weird. I haven't rebooted in a few weeks now. I tried to watch a video a bit ago and it was slow again. It was down to about 2 or 3 frames per

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Dale
Robin Atwood wrote: AFAIK, all eselect opengl does is set up some symlinks so you use NVidia libraries and not Mesa ones. You might want to poke around and check last access dates. HTH -Robin I was thinking the same thing. I figure something worked for a while and then had some sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I was thinking the same thing. I figure something worked for a while and then had some sort of a error and then switched to something else that was slow. I don't know the inner workings of opengl so I am just guessing. I just know it worked for a while then didn't until I told

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Well, I worked on my air compressor and played in the dirt in my garden for a while and now I get this again: 2 frames in 7.6 seconds = 0.263 FPS 2 frames in 7.7 seconds = 0.259 FPS D'ouch! I don't know what the issue is but it is getting on my nerves. I have not even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Well, I worked on my air compressor and played in the dirt in my garden for a while and now I get this again: 2 frames in 7.6 seconds = 0.263 FPS 2 frames in 7.7 seconds = 0.259 FPS D'ouch! I don't know what the issue is but it is getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 11/08/2010 01:20 PM, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: I was thinking the same thing. I figure something worked for a while and then had some sort of a error and then switched to something else that was slow. I don't know the inner workings of opengl so I am just guessing.I just know

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread walt
On 11/08/2010 01:20 PM, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: I was thinking the same thing. I figure something worked for a while and then had some sort of a error and then switched to something else that was slow. I don't know the inner workings of opengl so I am just guessing.I just know it worked for

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-07 Thread walt
On 11/06/2010 01:06 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: ,,,I have a GeForce 9400 GT 512MB and the xserver will happily use 90% while nothing much is happening. Start a KDE4 app which constantly updates (ktorrent, kps are good 3rd party examples) and the xserver goes crazy. That sounds to me like a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-07 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 08 November 2010, walt wrote: On 11/06/2010 01:06 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: ,,,I have a GeForce 9400 GT 512MB and the xserver will happily use 90% while nothing much is happening. Start a KDE4 app which constantly updates (ktorrent, kps are good 3rd party examples) and the xserver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-07 Thread Dale
Robin Atwood wrote: On Saturday 06 November 2010, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: This is getting weird. I haven't rebooted in a few weeks now. I tried to watch a video a bit ago and it was slow again. It was down to about 2 or 3 frames per second. It is awful. If I go tell it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I noticed something on mine when I did that. I was actually doing the command in a Konsole. It seemed to mess up again later on. It got REALLY slow. I decided to do things differently. I logged out of KDE, went to single user mode, typed in the command to set opengl to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-06 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 06 November 2010, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: This is getting weird. I haven't rebooted in a few weeks now. I tried to watch a video a bit ago and it was slow again. It was down to about 2 or 3 frames per second. It is awful. If I go tell it to switch to opengl, it gets fast

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-30 Thread walt
On 10/26/2010 07:30 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:01 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Iain Buchanan did opine thusly: On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 schrieb Iain Buchananiai...@netspace.net.au: [...] Someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: My fast desktop with Core i7 920, Nvidia GX 240, has a slower KDE UI than my 6-year-old laptop that has AMD Athlon 3200+ and ATI Radeon Mobility 9700. Simply opening a konsole window on my desktop with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 10:24 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: I'm having issues with the latest mix of nvidia-drivers, xorg, and whatever else it might be! I'm getting bad performance when switching virtual dekstops and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-27 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 22:55 -0500, Dale wrote: I have a update. Check this out: hey, don't get my hopes up like that. Still no improvement on my box. But then, I am seeing nearly 6500 FPS :D I noticed something on mine when I did that. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 26 October 2010 18:28:16 Arttu V. wrote: ~ $ equery belongs glxinfo [ Searching for file(s) glxinfo in *... ] x11-apps/mesa-progs-7.7 (/usr/bin/glxinfo) ~ $ equery belongs glxgears [ Searching for file(s) glxgears in *... ] x11-apps/mesa-progs-7.7 (/usr/bin/glxgears Thank you,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 schrieb Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au: [...] Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x from memory. Sorry for being vague, I'll keep looking. Ah, I seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 schrieb Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au: [...] Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:01 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Iain Buchanan did opine thusly: On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 schrieb Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au: [...] Someone posted recently about an upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: I'm having issues with the latest mix of nvidia-drivers, xorg, and whatever else it might be! I'm getting bad performance when switching virtual dekstops and moving windows and such.  GL screensavers seem to be ok

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 26 October 2010 02:48:03 Dale wrote: r...@smoker / # glxinfo r...@smoker / # glxgears Would someone tell me which package has these two programs? The bit of poking about that I've done doesn't find them. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Arttu V.
On 10/26/10, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 26 October 2010 02:48:03 Dale wrote: r...@smoker / # glxinfo r...@smoker / # glxgears Would someone tell me which package has these two programs? The bit of poking about that I've done doesn't find them. ~ $ equery

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:24 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: I'm having issues with the latest mix of nvidia-drivers, xorg, and whatever else it might be! I'm getting bad

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Hi, I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My system is something like this: Mobo: Abit NF7 2.0 CPU: AMD 2500+ No overclocking Memory: 2Gbs of 333Mhz. Monitor: Gateway 19

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver issue? Is OpenGL working at all? Does glxinfo produce lots of output, with 'direct rendering: Yes' near the top? If not, your're using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver issue? Is OpenGL working at all? Does glxinfo produce lots of output, with 'direct rendering: Yes' near the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 18:42 -0500, Dale wrote: So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver issue? I'm going to take the side off and blow out the case in a bit and test again. I'm open to ideas

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 18:42 -0500, Dale wrote: So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver issue? I'm going to take the side off and blow out the case in a bit and test again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Well, at least we know there is a problem and it isn't just us. If you find something, let us know. I would hate to know I had to try to watch a DVD right now. I doubt it would even start up. o_O BTW, hal is disabled on xorg here. It's enabled on other things but not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread me
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Well, at least we know there is a problem and it isn't just us.   If you find something, let us know.   I would hate to know I had to try to watch a DVD right now.  I doubt it would even start up.  o_O BTW, hal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 22:55 -0500, Dale wrote: I have a update. Check this out: hey, don't get my hopes up like that. Still no improvement on my box. But then, I am seeing nearly 6500 FPS :D -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The chief enemy of creativity is good sense