Actually, there is no acceleration for an nVidia card under the default "nv" driver. Check the documentation. You need to install the "nvidia" drivers to get that.
Ric -----Original Message----- From: Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 12:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!! On Qua 11 Dez 2002 07:17, Simon Naish wrote: Is that to taken seriously? I got 715.600fps on my gf2 with nvidia drivers! Just to be sure..... that's 3758 frames in 5 seconds! Ricardo > Just my 2 cents worth but as far as I can tell there is no hardware > acceleration available from the nv driver. 340 fps is seriously poor for > the small window of gears, and bout right for no hardware accelertion, try > 6000 (yup 6000) fps with hardware acceleration and a reasonable to good > modern graphics card. I cant see the open source drivers getting close :o( > for a very very very long time. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:14:41 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! > > > On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:06 am, you wrote: > > > XFree's nv driver does have 3d/accel, XFree86-4.2.1. > > > My GeF2 gets 35 fps with glxgears in fullscreen, 1024x768x16. 340 fps > > > in the smaller default window using the nv driver. Either try the > > > older 2960 nvidia src.rpms, or if limited 3d/accel is all you need, > > > avoid the nvidia binary crap altogether. > > > > Tom, does this mean that sometime (with ongoing development?) in the > > future we might actually see the fully open sourced drivers being > > comparable to performance to the closed ones? It would be nice to be able > > to drop the proprietary drivers... > > > > Got my fingers crossed! :-) > > > > -- > > > > /\ Dark< >Lord \/ > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ========================================================== Linux user # 102240 => Machine # 96125 => Seti@home user ========================================================== http://counter.li.org/ & Get Counted!
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