From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LM0RC-0001Lh-4G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:33:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AE56E0304; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.146]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05813E0304 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:33:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so969919eyg.10 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:33:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=JweLTw75jtnVaVgxdNpTs+R0xy3I9uiZNSleIa0pmP0=; b=RcZCEFlihY9HOxXdaXaqmSsiX00VUKNQ0rqUfLb6IKXtbKEd3w8V5ZwTsLegP/kDOa +3heGzfly0qgqJ1swKkAfs+f6yMK9s4ySwcOEN3/MvMfI3zzLm5WpdGIUEjUZ4b0Lzez VrLr0g5G50LJIqHzkhBv3TncUnPdvWXRR2lEM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=Uy5TW6ONgp6z01a1AOnkIs+4A2elUT0k23NDBl21k/uHtY7Vv/5rOS8NfHZ32qETUD ++wFsTVabfUlg3hYsql4IYTDLl9CyDX4Nqny29ReDcoE1EOvqxJdWJAeI0q0ECOE2gVw jg6nm5NtSggN5d+/ZtvNRqnGoltdVWTgqDAGg= Received: by 10.210.105.20 with SMTP id d20mr32773743ebc.84.1231680787431; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:33:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm58663073ewy.51.2009.01.11.05.33.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:33:06 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Loss of performance...OpenGL? Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:33:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.92 (Linux/2.6.28r4; KDE/4.1.87; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090111132448.GA23513@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20090111132448.GA23513@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901111433.01908.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7dabc0a1-3f9b-4efd-be82-27c37c09c8da X-Archives-Hash: 309f1a94d1b006cd170db0c20b388a5f On Sonntag 11 Januar 2009, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > Playing videos with mplayer produces an output of > > ************************************************ > **** Your system is too SLOW to play this! **** > ************************************************ > > , diplaying of dvb-t broadcasts are often interrupted (screen freezes, > audio continues) or otherwise disturbed (colored blocks, "flashes" > etc.) > > The CPU meter of gkrellm shows a high overall CPU load with a greater > part of load of system processes. > > Another indication of something, which is going wrong here is, that blender > goes into the digital nirwana when rendering sometimes, whith a 100% > system load. > > I suspect the opengl/graphic interface of my PC is somehow screwed up. > I am using (32bit system): > > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ > on a ASUS AV8 mainboard (VIA chipset) > nVidia Corporation GeForce 7600 GT (rev a2) graphics adapter (AGP) > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82 USE="acpi gtk -custom-cflags (-multilib) > > Everything else not graphic/opengl related works fine and as fast as > one could expect from a PC like that. > > I installed nvidia drivers vi aemerge which automagically eselects the > opengl interface. > > I attached the latest xorg.log for information purposes. > > It works for a couple of time...and then (time unknown) problems > arises as described. > > How can I pinpoint the problem and how can I fix it? > > Kind regards, > Meino Cramer are you using composite? if yes, don't. Or install the latest nvidia driver.