Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card
I have a 7300GT in my computer, and I have run into a couple of errors trying to set up WoW in Wine (couldn't find copies of the error elsewhere). Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200. These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup. What application/method would you suggest to test this? I'd prefer something that would provide command line information, rather than about how fast does this run? I checked for the libraries mentioned on nVidias web site, and they are all in the right spots, which leads me to suspect it's an xorg.conf error, but I'm not sure. I've attached the xorg.conf file to the end, just in case. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tue Feb 6 05:44:08 UTC 2007 Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load extmod Load glx Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load type1 Load freetype EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: Identifier Monitor0 VendorName SAM ModelName SyncMaster HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver nvidia VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName Unknown Board EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 15 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 4 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection /var/log/Xorg.0.log: X Window System Version 6.9.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2 i386 [ELF] Current Operating System: FreeBSD elrond.ameritech.net 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Fri Mar 2 21:01:49 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JIM20070302 i386 Build Date: 08 February 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Mar 13 17:47:13 2007 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) ServerLayout X.org Configured (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 (**) | |--Device Card0 (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (**) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (**) Extension Composite is enabled (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 X.Org Video Driver: 0.8 X.Org XInput driver : 0.5 X.Org Server Extension :
Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card
On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:37, Jim Stapleton wrote: Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200. These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup. /etc/X11/xorg.conf: [...] Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection Even though the nvidia drivers claim to support OpenGL with the composite extension enabled, my experience has been that it leads to performance similar to what you are describing. Try disabling composite. Cheers, -- Norbert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card
Jim Stapleton wrote: I have a 7300GT in my computer, and I have run into a couple of errors trying to set up WoW in Wine (couldn't find copies of the error elsewhere). Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200. These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup. What application/method would you suggest to test this? I'd prefer something that would provide command line information, rather than about how fast does this run? I checked for the libraries mentioned on nVidias web site, and they are all in the right spots, which leads me to suspect it's an xorg.conf error, but I'm not sure. I've attached the xorg.conf file to the end, just in case. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton /etc/X11/xorg.conf: [snipped config] /var/log/Xorg.0.log: [snipped long log] Jim, I'm not sure about your wine config because wine's a very twitchy beast (over the past couple years in particular because of an API change I think). All I know is that I was very happy and amazed when I got Half-Life 1 to play on my desktop back when I ran KDE in Linux. It was astonishing.. glxgears will provide you with some performance info about your OpenGL stats though. It also depends on what you're running, what your 7300GT runs for shared RAM, etc because I noticed that you mentioned Ti4200 (my first nVidia card), and they customarily came stock with 64MB of VRAM, whereas the 7300GT cards I can only assume come with around 256MB ~ 368MB. This in turn could seriously eat up system RAM if you don't have a lot and reduce performance in your machine, like what occurred with me and my first desktop after I upgraded to a Geforce 6200 card with 128MB of RAM since my system only has 512MB of RAM to allocate. Some things got faster, some things stayed the same, and some things got slower.. It also depends on the vendor that you bought the card from too. nVidia contracted their chipset to quite a few 3rd parties after the 5000 series, and it seems like their graphics quality in some respects has become inconsistent, and degraded with some vendors. -Garrett -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card
Norbert Papke wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:37, Jim Stapleton wrote: Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200. These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup. /etc/X11/xorg.conf: [...] Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection Even though the nvidia drivers claim to support OpenGL with the composite extension enabled, my experience has been that it leads to performance similar to what you are describing. Try disabling composite. Cheers, -- Norbert. True. Composite still isn't the greatest under the 6.9 branch of Xorg (and it wasn't that great under Xorg 7.0 either). It might have improved since then though in 7.1/7.2. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card
On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:50, Garrett Cooper wrote: Composite still isn't the greatest under the 6.9 branch of Xorg (and it wasn't that great under Xorg 7.0 either). It might have improved since then though in 7.1/7.2. I am running 7,2 and still cannot get the nvidia drivers to work with composite + OpenGL. -- Norbert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
