I'm running the most recent openSUSE 10.3 kernel on a Dell Latitude 830 laptop using an NVidia Quadro 140M graphics chip with 512M of video RAM. I also have the latest version I can find of the NVidia native driver installed (100.14.23) and am using Xorg 7.2 as the X Server with Compiz-Fusion running. This screen configuration actually seems to work quite well and I can use all the neat Compiz hacks like the rotating 3D-cube, wobbly windows, etc.
What's bugging me is that when I run glxgears to check out the actual frames-per-second horsepower of the NVidia card, which should be pretty damn speedy, especially with 512M of devoted RAM, I only see FPS rates of about 60. This seems really odd to me, even though for all intents and purposes it doesn't effect my work in any significant way since the video responsiveness is perfectly acceptable for my needs. Of course, I'm not running any heavy-duty, high-res 3D games either. Also, I've noticed when I dual-boot into Fedora Core 7 I can get apparent FPS rates in the thousands of FPS using glxgears. I'm guessing that something must be different in the two configurations, but there's nothing obvious that I can detect. Same X server, same NVidia driver, etc. Is there anything anyone can think of that I should be looking for to explain this dissimilarity? Perhaps something in the Xorg configuration that I'm using or shouldn't be using? Below is an excerpt of some data from glxinfo showing the configuration. I can provide details of the xorg.conf and any logs that might be of use in clarifying this situation upon request. TIA, --ted ======================================================== direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation server glx version string: 1.4 OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: Quadro NVS 140M/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 2.1.1 NVIDIA 100.14.23 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
