Hi, I've been trying to improve the performance of my Nvidia FX5200 card, with mixed results. After trying to enable Fast Writes and SBA (Side Band Addressing) by uncommenting the line:
options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1 in /etc/modules.d/nvidia, and then rebooting, I take a look at /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status, and see this: Status: Enabled Driver: NVIDIA AGP Rate: 8x Fast Writes: Enabled SBA: Disabled So Fast Writes works now (gave me an additional ~300fps in glxgears), but SBA is still a no-go. I'm aware that Fast Writes needs to be supported by the mobo, and needs to be enabled in the BIOS, but AFAIK, this is not the case with SBA. I know SBA is supported by my card because I've read other people have enabled it whilst googling for an answer, and it says so in /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card: Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported So I'm not sure what the problem here is, from everything I've read it *should* be working now. Anyway, here's the relevant bits of my XF86Config-4 should that have anything to do with it: Option "HWcursor" "on" Option "NVagp" "1" Option "PageFlip" "on" Option "CursorShadow" "on" Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "80" Option "CursorShadowXOffset" "5" Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "4" I'm using nvidia driver version 1.0.4496-r3. Any ideas? TIA, Matt -- PGP keys: http://tempest.afraid.org/~mca/keys/ "You are trapped in a maze of screens and ssh sessions all alike." "It is dark, and you are likely to log off the wrong account." -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
