mine with the 64 Studio nVidia drivers, and a GeForce 6200

~$ glxgears -printfps 3089 frames in 5.0 seconds = 617.698 FPS 3089 frames in 5.0 seconds = 617.694 FPS

How fast to you need it to go?

What does concern me though is the fact that you have variances in the consecutive calculations. Were you using the system at the time to do something else?

Everything else looks ok though.

Hi, 1: read: /var/log/Xorg.0.log and try:

$ grep "WW" /var/log/Xorg.0.log $ grep "EE" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

This will show a list of warnings look for errors: e.g. non-existent font paths, resolutions and comment out or delete wrong parameters

$ su (password)

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-backup

If you ever have problems and are dropped into a terminal

ls -la /etc/X11/

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and reboot should take you back to your default xorg.conf

Example: non-existent font paths.

Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"

EndSection

2: Comment out or delete unused resolutions. I leave 16 and 24 only.

Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]" Monitor "hp L1702" DefaultDepth 24

SubSection "Display"

Depth 1

Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 4

Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 8

Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 15

Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"
    Depth       16
    Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
    Depth       24
    Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection

EndSection

Always BackUp before you begin...

Keep an eye on Section_SubSection_EndSection. Keep the comments in the right places.

Cheers, dave

~$ glxgears -printfps 3090 frames in 5.0 seconds = 617.824 FPS 3089 frames in 5.0 seconds = 617.699 FPS

no noticeable difference here...

Any there?

~$ glxgears -printfps Crash (gdm welcome screen appears) (64studio 2.1 for 32 bits)

In ubuntu hardy (kernel 2.6.24-19-generic for X86-64): 12537 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2507.209 FPS which is quite a difference compared to your numbers. My video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1)

This being said, I don't see any problem, except that I won't run glxgears in 64studio again. Cheers Pablo

Well, if you take into account what I paid for my card I think it performs good enough.

I would expect your card to kick the door down in terms of performance...

One of my xorg.conf's (not 64studio) has over "160" lines of unused code I comment out. It makes a marked difference to how xorg performs. I can see the before/after changes when using the desktop, without using glxgears.

Entries like these.e.g.
Section Identifier "Touchpad" Section Identifier "synaptics" Section Identifier "Appletouch" Section Identifier "Stylus" Section Identifier "Eraser" Section Identifier "Cursor" Section Identifier "Monitor1" Section Identifier "ATIMonitor" Section Identifier "Card1" Section Identifier "Screen1" Section Identifier "ATIScreen" Section "DRI"

Their is no second monitor on this pc, no ATI and no wacom devices. I backup as I make the changes.

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf-backup1

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf-backup2 etc,... when done.

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf-backup3ok

Dont be tempted to copy/paste into xorg.conf, type any changes yourself.

Cheers, dave

@Quentin Harley I wasn't doing anything different before I switched to the repo drivers..

In Ubuntu I get

8490 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1697.827 FPS 8565 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1712.932 FPS

compared to in 64studio

3749 frames in 5.1 seconds = 731.105 FPS 3720 frames in 5.1 seconds = 727.463 FPS

When I find time I'll mess around with this but for now I'm just happy X works.

It should be closely related... and let us know what the differences are.

Cheers,

I went ahead and uninstalled nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-2.6.21-1-multimedia-amd64 nvidia-kernel-common

Installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2.run from NVIDIA

It works great:

8657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1731.224 FPS 8613 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1722.572 FPS 8625 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1724.991 FPS 8635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1726.802 FPS

Better than in Ubuntu, although I am running fluxbox :)

The problem is everytime I reboot my computer I have to reinstall the NVIDIA driver because X fails to find a screen.

The error message I get is

Fatal server error: No screens found!

Any ideas?

Thanks, Ryan

Hi,

My Default Screen settings are different to yours? (0 0)? Also there is an entry for the card slot.

examples from my xorg

Section "Device" BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen"

Section "ServerLayout" Screen "Default Screen"

your first post xorg settings

Section "ServerLayout" Screen "Default Screen" 0 0

To check old nvidia packages are removed:

$ dpkg -l |grep nvidia

Also once you have installed the 64studio nvidia package and then installed the binary drivers the paths can get confused, I have always managed by uninstalling the binary driver and then reinstalling again. Sometimes I have to repeat the uninstall/install a couple of times. Always with gdm stopped and running init 3 (X stopped).

[ctrl]+[alt]+[f1] login.

init 3

if no root prompt press [Enter] again.

/etc/init.d/gdm stop

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12-pkg2.run --uninstall

Then install the driver.

Refresh rate settings can also cause screen problems. in the past I have used this type of setting. You would need the settings for your monitor. Section "Monitor" #Option "DPMS" VertRefresh 55-160 HorizSync 30-96

Edit: Check to make sure uninstalling the nvidia.deb package also removed the scripts. If not.

$ cd /etc/init.d/ $ ls -a $ sudo update-rc.d -f nvidia-glx remove $ sudo update-rc.d -f nvidia-kernel remove

You may have to uninstall/reinstall the binary driver again.

If you still have no luck try an earlier driver.

keep an eye on these for clues

$ grep "WW" /var/log/Xorg.0.log $ grep "EE" /var/log/Xorg.0.log $ grep "II" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Cheers, dave

It works!

I ran,

$ sudo update-rc.d -f nvidia-glx remove $ sudo update-rc.d -f nvidia-kernel remove

and removed the "0 0" after default screen in xorg.conf (Nice job spotting that!).

rebooted and works like a charm :)

I still have one more 'weird' problem but I'm thinking it's maybe a defect in my video card. Sometimes, only sometimes, my computer wont boot into X. Dmesg outputs

NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1607) NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed eth1: no IPv6 routers present NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1607) NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1607) NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x12:0x2b:1607) NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed

I am certain I have gotten the same error in Ubuntu. Like I said, its pretty random. I think this occurs when I'm running windows and reboot back into Linux. Thing is, I don't ever remember this happening before I repartitioned and installed 64studio and windows. I'm going to go try and reproduce this error. This time I'll be sure to run

$ grep "WW" /var/log/Xorg.0.log $ grep "EE" /var/log/Xorg.0.log $ grep "II" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Thanks again, Ryan

Hi Ryan, I install the binary driver first without using the .deb ones. So /etc/init.d/ has no entries to begin with. You only get these scripts when installing the .deb nvidia, thats why I had to edit the post. nVidia and binary drivers have always been a pain with linux. I try hard here to configure X and do without binary drivers on my main studio. One day nvidia might release the code and the linux developers will be able to move forward with graphics development for the cards.

Make sure your IRQ's are not sharing?

$ cat /proc/interrupts

Take a look at the section: Temporarily Edit the GRUB Menu

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#Temporarily_Edit_the_GRUB_Menu

By typing "e" you can temporarily edit the kernel boot line, here is how mine are set, Take note some laptops need acpi. Once $ cat /proc/interrupts shows IRQ's are not being shared you can edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst to make the changes permanent.

e.g. ro acpi=off pci=noacpi apm=off noapic vga=791

$ cat /proc/interrupts

10: 42286 XT-PIC-XT nvidia

My nvidia card is not sharing with other cards "noapic" did the job.

Disable ipv6

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/aliases or sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases

Will look like this

alias net-pf-10 ipv6

Change it and add the second line underneath so it looks like this. This will disable ipv6.

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

You will see better web browsing performance with ipv6 disabled.

Cheers,
dave