And even more interesting.  If I maximize the gears window and leave it with 
focus the FPS drops to 500-1000 FPS.  Is this  normal?



> Strange things here.  I rebuilt the system (my RAID went bad) and now
> without trying - I did the same as before: merged nvidia drivers, glx -  I
> get around 3200 FPS from a Geforce3 Card with 64 meg of memory. 
> update-opengl didn't make any difference.  I get around 24000 fps if I
> switch to a console - but it's hard to run the system that way <G>.
>
> > On Tuesday 20 May 2003 07:45 am, brett holcomb wrote:
> > > I did all but update-opengl nvidia and got the logo when I
> > > did startx.
> > >
> > > Does the logo mean I am using hardware acceleration?
> >
> > No, only that you are using the nvidia driver. Do:
> >
> > $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
> > Status:          Enabled
> > Driver:          NVIDIA
> > AGP Rate:        4x
> > Fast Writes:     Enabled
> > SBA:             Enabled
> >
> > GeForce4 TI4200
> >
> > $ glxgears
> > 28983 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5796.600 FPS
> > 28971 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5794.200 FPS
> >
> > $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
> > Host Bridge:     PCI device 10de:01e0 (nVidia Corporation)
> > Fast Writes:     Supported
> > SBA:             Supported
> > AGP Rates:       4x 2x 1x
> > Registers:       0x1f000217:0x00000314
> >
> > from XF86Config
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> >     Identifier  "Screen 1"
> >     Device      "nVidia_GeForce4_TI4200"
> >     Option      "NvAGP" "1" #"1"=nvidia AGP "2"= AGPGART "3"=lookfor
> >                                              NVAGP and use if found. If
> >                                              not, use AGPGART "0"=  no
> >                                              AGP
> >     Monitor     "HYUNDAI"
> >     DefaultDepth 16
> >
> > hope something here helps

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