From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GwS1V-0004vR-C1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:35:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBINWPr3010178; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:32:25 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBINSkH8024979 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:28:46 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so2293978wxd for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:28:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=jgLIgb2U0XuxkY905cc+mJYRYL93T66CjO3NVaDVZ4FOXwTvXMVwIWCOKS/ESr+yGrPLXFDibFlyzQweJ3NINtjfcvJcnxKubGSdDYUgNFRFNB/Af/BS1aLVdiKffKP6/FB/I34WqCuf2L+BigJxyZ2jlfmJ0o37lyKhyKKB86Y= Received: by 10.90.118.12 with SMTP id q12mr4363437agc.1166484525377; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:28:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ymir.donotfeedtheray.com ( [124.243.156.201]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 38sm4032880agd.2006.12.18.15.28.43; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:28:45 -0800 (PST) From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia + glxgears slower than before Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:58:34 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612190958.34635.dystopianray@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e9cb8603-5784-4c73-9d4d-d92fe29d28f2 X-Archives-Hash: 2c1dc05358e54aac7a8e1074470411f0 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