Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia + glxgears slower than before

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, 19 December 2006 9:42, Jakob wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a strage problem, some month ago I bougth a new laptop (Core2duo
> 1,83 Ghz + Geforce 7600).
> The first thing I did was installing gentoo, and after X was finished I
> installed the nvidia-driver an run glxgears to see the difference between
> my old desktop and my new laptop.
> I got about 10000.000 FPS and was happy. I continued installing the system
> and built some new kernels to get all the things working like wlan etc.
> some days later I run glxgears again and was shocked of the glxgears
> output:
>
> 31189 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6237.635 FPS
> 31163 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6232.600 FPS
> 31178 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6235.511 FPS
>
>
> since this time I never got more than 6400.000 FPS, I `ve tried to install
> newer versions of nvidia-driver and the nvidia-driver from the nvidia page
> but its not going over 6400.000 FPS. After some time I thougth maybe it
> didnt run faster the first time and I was remembering wrong but than I saw
> a forum entry from someone with the same notebook running fedoracore and he
> postet his putput of glxgears and got about 10000.000 FPS.
>
> Has anyone any ideas what the problem could be???
> I dont want to install gentoo again because everything else works fine.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Jakob

The problem is that glxgears is not a benchmark. Run some real programs and if 
you have performance problems with those, then you have something to worry 
about.

-- 
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list