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From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia + glxgears slower than before
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:35:57
Message-Id: 200612190958.34635.dystopianray@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Nvidia + glxgears slower than before by Jakob
1 On Tuesday, 19 December 2006 9:42, Jakob wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I have a strage problem, some month ago I bougth a new laptop (Core2duo
5 > 1,83 Ghz + Geforce 7600).
6 > The first thing I did was installing gentoo, and after X was finished I
7 > installed the nvidia-driver an run glxgears to see the difference between
8 > my old desktop and my new laptop.
9 > I got about 10000.000 FPS and was happy. I continued installing the system
10 > and built some new kernels to get all the things working like wlan etc.
11 > some days later I run glxgears again and was shocked of the glxgears
12 > output:
13 >
14 > 31189 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6237.635 FPS
15 > 31163 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6232.600 FPS
16 > 31178 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6235.511 FPS
17 >
18 >
19 > since this time I never got more than 6400.000 FPS, I `ve tried to install
20 > newer versions of nvidia-driver and the nvidia-driver from the nvidia page
21 > but its not going over 6400.000 FPS. After some time I thougth maybe it
22 > didnt run faster the first time and I was remembering wrong but than I saw
23 > a forum entry from someone with the same notebook running fedoracore and he
24 > postet his putput of glxgears and got about 10000.000 FPS.
25 >
26 > Has anyone any ideas what the problem could be???
27 > I dont want to install gentoo again because everything else works fine.
28 >
29 > Thanks and Regards
30 >
31 > Jakob
32
33 The problem is that glxgears is not a benchmark. Run some real programs and if
34 you have performance problems with those, then you have something to worry
35 about.
36
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38 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
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Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia + glxgears slower than before Jakob <jak.gentoo@××××××××××.com>