[gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I have a huge unsent email sitting here about all my frustrations
with ATI Radeon adapters. Instead of going down that path with you all
(Holly - can I write you offline?) ;-) I bought an NVidia adapter from
3D Fuzion. It uses a GeForce4 MX 4000, runs at 4X and has 128MB DDR. I
thought I'd try this out. Low and behold I'm doing worse than with the
Radeons!

   For configuration I'm working mostly from this page:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml

   Currently I have MTTR enabled and /dev/agpgart and agp_via support
in the kernel. (As modules)

   The NVidia card comes up fine in text mode as I boot, but when the
machine goes into graphics mode I get only the NVidia logo and a mouse
arrow. The mouse will move the arrow so the adapter is alive, but
beyond that I see almost nothing. The screen never goes to the GDM
login. If I type my user name and password I hear the machine going
into Gnome but the screen never changes.

   There does appear to be a very small dark area, about the height of
1 or 2 pixels, in the upper left corner, but other than that nothing
but the NVidia logo screen.

   I tried disabling glx loading in xorg.conf but got the same result.

   Bummer!

   I've ssh'ed in. Here's what I'm seeing:

godzilla ~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
<SNIP>
via_agp                 7680  1
evdev                   7296  0
realtime                7752  0
sbp2                   21832  0
ohci1394               32052  0
ieee1394               90164  2 sbp2,ohci1394
nvidia               3464700  12
agpgart                29384  2 via_agp,nvidia
godzilla ~ #

mark@godzilla ~ $ dmesg | grep NV
  BIOS-e820: 000000002ffff000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-6629  Wed Nov
 3 13:12:51 PST 2004
mark@godzilla ~ $

mark@godzilla ~ $ dmesg | grep agp
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA KT266/KY266x/KT333 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 32M @ 0xfc000000
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
mark@godzilla ~ $

There are no errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and only a couple of
warnings. The 'Failed to load GLX' error goes away when I tell
xorg.conf to load glx:

godzilla ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX
godzilla ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(WW) (1600x1200,My Monitor) mode clock 162MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,My Monitor) mode clock 175.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz
(WW) (1400x1050,My Monitor) mode clock 155.8MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "800x600" (height 1200 is larger than
(WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "800x600" (height 1200 is larger than
(WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "700x525" (height 1050 is larger than
(WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "700x525" (height 1050 is larger than
(WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
godzilla ~ #

godzilla ~ # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo
KT266/A/333]0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7
[Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
0000:00:06.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc.
PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100) (rev 02)
0000:00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23
IEEE-1394 Controller
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9
[Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)
0000:00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2
IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME
Hammerfall DSP (rev 68)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
0000:00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18
[GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
godzilla ~ #

   I've almost never read an NVidia thread on this list some I'm
starting from nowhere here. I hope this is some stupid mistake some
nice person out there will recognize and save me from yet another bad
Linux adapter weekend.

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Roman v. Gemmeren]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I have a huge unsent email sitting here about all my frustrations
> with ATI Radeon adapters. Instead of going down that path with you all
> (Holly - can I write you offline?) ;-) I bought an NVidia adapter from
> 3D Fuzion. It uses a GeForce4 MX 4000, runs at 4X and has 128MB DDR. I
> thought I'd try this out. Low and behold I'm doing worse than with the
> Radeons!
> 
>    For configuration I'm working mostly from this page:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
> 
>    Currently I have MTTR enabled and /dev/agpgart and agp_via support
> in the kernel. (As modules)
> 
>    The NVidia card comes up fine in text mode as I boot, but when the
> machine goes into graphics mode I get only the NVidia logo and a mouse
> arrow. The mouse will move the arrow so the adapter is alive, but
> beyond that I see almost nothing. The screen never goes to the GDM
> login. If I type my user name and password I hear the machine going
> into Gnome but the screen never changes.
> 
>    There does appear to be a very small dark area, about the height of
> 1 or 2 pixels, in the upper left corner, but other than that nothing
> but the NVidia logo screen.
> 
>    I tried disabling glx loading in xorg.conf but got the same result.
> 
>    Bummer!
> 
>    I've ssh'ed in. Here's what I'm seeing:
> 
> godzilla ~ # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> <SNIP>
> via_agp                 7680  1
> evdev                   7296  0
> realtime                7752  0
> sbp2                   21832  0
> ohci1394               32052  0
> ieee1394               90164  2 sbp2,ohci1394
> nvidia               3464700  12
> agpgart                29384  2 via_agp,nvidia
> godzilla ~ #
> 
> mark@godzilla ~ $ dmesg | grep NV
>   BIOS-e820: 000000002ffff000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-6629  Wed Nov
>  3 13:12:51 PST 2004
> mark@godzilla ~ $
> 
> mark@godzilla ~ $ dmesg | grep agp
> Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
> agpgart: Detected VIA KT266/KY266x/KT333 chipset
> agpgart: AGP aperture is 32M @ 0xfc000000
> agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
> agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
> agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
> agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
> mark@godzilla ~ $
> 
> There are no errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and only a couple of
> warnings. The 'Failed to load GLX' error goes away when I tell
> xorg.conf to load glx:
> 
> godzilla ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX
> godzilla ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
> (WW) (1600x1200,My Monitor) mode clock 162MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz
> (WW) (1600x1200,My Monitor) mode clock 175.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz
> (WW) (1400x1050,My Monitor) mode clock 155.8MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "800x600" (height 1200 is larger than
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "800x600" (height 1200 is larger than
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "700x525" (height 1050 is larger than
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "700x525" (height 1050 is larger than
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):      EDID-specified maximum 1024)
> godzilla ~ #
> 
> godzilla ~ # lspci
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo
> KT266/A/333]0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7
> [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
> 0000:00:06.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc.
> PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100) (rev 02)
> 0000:00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23
> IEEE-1394 Controller
> 0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9
> [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)
> 0000:00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2
> IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
> 0000:00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME
> Hammerfall DSP (rev 68)
> 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
> 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
> 0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
> 0000:00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
> 1.1 Controller (rev 1b)
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18
> [GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
> godzilla ~ #
> 
>    I've almost never read an NVidia thread on this list some I'm
> starting from nowhere here. I hope this is some stupid mistake some
> nice person out there will recognize and save me from yet another bad
> Linux adapter weekend.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
hi,

looks almost fine to me. I would guess the error is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Could you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Mark Knecht]

On 8/20/05, Roman v. Gemmeren <Strowi@hasnoname.de> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> looks almost fine to me. I would guess the error is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> 
> Could you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
> 
> --
> Ciao,
> 
>   Roman v. Gemmeren

Hi Roman,
   No immediate need. I seem to have solved the problem, at least as a
starting point.

   My bad for not trying the ~x86 version of the nvidia driver. Once
installed I now get into Gnome, get Direct Rendering and get about
1600 FPS out of glxgears so I think things look at least OK.

   What is a reasonable glxgears FPS for an AGP 4X GeForce4 card
running on an Athlon XP 1600+?

   Anyway, I seem to be in good shape now. Thanks for writing back.

Cheers,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Roman v. Gemmeren]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi Roman,
>    No immediate need. I seem to have solved the problem, at least as a
> starting point.
> 
>    My bad for not trying the ~x86 version of the nvidia driver. Once
> installed I now get into Gnome, get Direct Rendering and get about
> 1600 FPS out of glxgears so I think things look at least OK.
> 
>    What is a reasonable glxgears FPS for an AGP 4X GeForce4 card
> running on an Athlon XP 1600+?
> 
>    Anyway, I seem to be in good shape now. Thanks for writing back.

Hi,

i'm glad you solved your problem. I had a Geforce 5200 until i purchased 
a ATI Card 3 weeks ago.
glxgears gave me ~1500fps without any special tweaking. (BUT PLS don't 
use  glxgears for benchmarking stuff, it gives very inconsistent results 
i on different systems). It's better to use sth like ut2004-demo.

PS: My new ATI x800 (i know, little overkill, but after my exams...;)) 
gives me also 1600fps in glxgears (there are some very strange problems 
with the drivers on amd64).;(
But hey, gaming is, what windows was made for.

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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Saturday 20 August 2005 22:25, Roman v. Gemmeren wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi Roman,
> >    No immediate need. I seem to have solved the problem, at least as a
> > starting point.
> >
> >    My bad for not trying the ~x86 version of the nvidia driver. Once
> > installed I now get into Gnome, get Direct Rendering and get about
> > 1600 FPS out of glxgears so I think things look at least OK.
> >
> >    What is a reasonable glxgears FPS for an AGP 4X GeForce4 card
> > running on an Athlon XP 1600+?
> >
> >    Anyway, I seem to be in good shape now. Thanks for writing back.
>
> Hi,
>
> i'm glad you solved your problem. I had a Geforce 5200 until i purchased
> a ATI Card 3 weeks ago.
> glxgears gave me ~1500fps without any special tweaking. (BUT PLS don't
> use  glxgears for benchmarking stuff, it gives very inconsistent results
> i on different systems). It's better to use sth like ut2004-demo.
>
> PS: My new ATI x800 (i know, little overkill, but after my exams...;))
> gives me also 1600fps in glxgears (there are some very strange problems
> with the drivers on amd64).;(
> But hey, gaming is, what windows was made for.

glxgears is more or less a cpu bench ;)

The fps are much more influenced by the CPU you are using than by the card - 
except when direct rendering is missing...

But there is some little interresting point: with kwin or integrity (qt based) 
glxgears is always a little bit faster, than with the gtk-wm (metacity, 
sawfish) I tried.. don't know why.
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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Mark Knecht]

On 8/20/05, Roman v. Gemmeren <Strowi@hasnoname.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i'm glad you solved your problem. I had a Geforce 5200 until i purchased
> a ATI Card 3 weeks ago.
> glxgears gave me ~1500fps without any special tweaking. (BUT PLS don't
> use  glxgears for benchmarking stuff, it gives very inconsistent results
> i on different systems). It's better to use sth like ut2004-demo.

Uugh.....that looks like a 282MB demo file just to get FPS for 20 seconds!! 

Painful! I hope it downloads fast...

Cheers,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[strowi]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 8/20/05, Roman v. Gemmeren <Strowi@hasnoname.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > i'm glad you solved your problem. I had a Geforce 5200 until i purchased
> > a ATI Card 3 weeks ago.
> > glxgears gave me ~1500fps without any special tweaking. (BUT PLS don't
> > use  glxgears for benchmarking stuff, it gives very inconsistent results
> > i on different systems). It's better to use sth like ut2004-demo.
> 
> Uugh.....that looks like a 282MB demo file just to get FPS for 20 seconds!! 
> 
> Painful! I hope it downloads fast...
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
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> 

Well, i'm sure there are other benchmarking utilities, but i don't remember atm.

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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Mark Knecht]

On 8/20/05, Roman v. Gemmeren <Strowi@hasnoname.de> wrote:

> It's better to use sth like ut2004-demo.

OK, ut2004-demo runs on the NVidia MX4000 but the sound is very messed
up using my RME card, but at least it runs. After Googling for a
minute or two I found that

~ 
stat fps
~

gives me FPS count on screen. If I choose something like the the
DeathMatch option and then spectate I run anywhere for about 50FPS up
to about 80FPS.

CPU is maxed out at 99.9% according to top. (I ssh'ed in.) It's an
Athlon XP 1600+ with 768MB in the machine.

Half Life seems to run pretty well under Cedega now. I don't know how
to get FPS from it.

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sunday 21 August 2005 00:28, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 8/20/05, Roman v. Gemmeren <Strowi@hasnoname.de> wrote:
> > It's better to use sth like ut2004-demo.
>
> OK, ut2004-demo runs on the NVidia MX4000 but the sound is very messed
> up using my RME card, but at least it runs. After Googling for a
> minute or two I found that
>
> ~
> stat fps
> ~
>
> gives me FPS count on screen. If I choose something like the the
> DeathMatch option and then spectate I run anywhere for about 50FPS up
> to about 80FPS.
>
> CPU is maxed out at 99.9% according to top. (I ssh'ed in.) It's an
> Athlon XP 1600+ with 768MB in the machine.
>
> Half Life seems to run pretty well under Cedega now. I don't know how
> to get FPS from it.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

have you tried replacing the sdl-lib and the openal binary with ones from your 
system? Solved some problems for me ;)
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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Willie Wong]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:28:18PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> OK, ut2004-demo runs on the NVidia MX4000 but the sound is very messed
> up using my RME card, but at least it runs. After Googling for a
> minute or two I found that
> 
> ~ 
> stat fps
> ~
> 
> gives me FPS count on screen. If I choose something like the the
> DeathMatch option and then spectate I run anywhere for about 50FPS up
> to about 80FPS.

That's pretty good. My Geforece4 MX on P4 2Ghz get 2000 FPS in glx
gears but averages about 35 FPS in UT-demo DeathMatch. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Mark Knecht]

On 8/20/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> On Sunday 21 August 2005 00:28, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On 8/20/05, Roman v. Gemmeren <Strowi@hasnoname.de> wrote:
> > > It's better to use sth like ut2004-demo.
> >
> > OK, ut2004-demo runs on the NVidia MX4000 but the sound is very messed
> > up using my RME card, but at least it runs. After Googling for a
> > minute or two I found that
> >
> > ~
> > stat fps
> > ~
> >
> > gives me FPS count on screen. If I choose something like the the
> > DeathMatch option and then spectate I run anywhere for about 50FPS up
> > to about 80FPS.
> >
> > CPU is maxed out at 99.9% according to top. (I ssh'ed in.) It's an
> > Athlon XP 1600+ with 768MB in the machine.
> >
> > Half Life seems to run pretty well under Cedega now. I don't know how
> > to get FPS from it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> 
> have you tried replacing the sdl-lib and the openal binary with ones from your
> system? Solved some problems for me ;)

I haven't but I'm not sure it's worth the effort in my case. I'm not a
gamer. I bought a subscription to Cedega last Christmas when I built a
machine for my son but I had never used it myself. My kid started
complaining that his games weren't working correctly so I Was digging
in to see what I could do with it but none of my adapters had 3D
working as it wasn't important to me. (I do recording studio stuff -
Ardour, soft synths, and Wine to run a few Windows audio apps, etc.)

Anyway, with this $49 NVidia card I can now run Half Life pretty
nicely. Point2Play has an FPS counter. In HL I'm getting a pretty
consistent 72FPS. That's more than enough for my needs. Anything more
is likely to get broken as I forget what I've done!

Cheers,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] First time Nvidia user - help required

[Greg Shikhman]

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FPS in Half-Life is net_graph 3 or cl_showfps 1. Some people say cl_showfps 
one is a bit inconsistent, but I find it to be accurate enough. the CL 
command may require sv_cheats to be set to 1. Linux tends to run games a bit 
worse so if you need HL optimization, just email me :)

On 8/20/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> On 8/20/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> 
> wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 August 2005 00:28, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > On 8/20/05, Roman v. Gemmeren <Strowi@hasnoname.de> wrote:
> > > > It's better to use sth like ut2004-demo.
> > >
> > > OK, ut2004-demo runs on the NVidia MX4000 but the sound is very messed
> > > up using my RME card, but at least it runs. After Googling for a
> > > minute or two I found that
> > >
> > > ~
> > > stat fps
> > > ~
> > >
> > > gives me FPS count on screen. If I choose something like the the
> > > DeathMatch option and then spectate I run anywhere for about 50FPS up
> > > to about 80FPS.
> > >
> > > CPU is maxed out at 99.9% according to top. (I ssh'ed in.) It's an
> > > Athlon XP 1600+ with 768MB in the machine.
> > >
> > > Half Life seems to run pretty well under Cedega now. I don't know how
> > > to get FPS from it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> >
> > have you tried replacing the sdl-lib and the openal binary with ones 
> from your
> > system? Solved some problems for me ;)
> 
> I haven't but I'm not sure it's worth the effort in my case. I'm not a
> gamer. I bought a subscription to Cedega last Christmas when I built a
> machine for my son but I had never used it myself. My kid started
> complaining that his games weren't working correctly so I Was digging
> in to see what I could do with it but none of my adapters had 3D
> working as it wasn't important to me. (I do recording studio stuff -
> Ardour, soft synths, and Wine to run a few Windows audio apps, etc.)
> 
> Anyway, with this $49 NVidia card I can now run Half Life pretty
> nicely. Point2Play has an FPS counter. In HL I'm getting a pretty
> consistent 72FPS. That's more than enough for my needs. Anything more
> is likely to get broken as I forget what I've done!
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
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