Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

[Dale]

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
>
>
>> So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I
>> get only about 1/10th the frame rate.  What gives?  Is this a driver
>> issue?
>>
> Is OpenGL working at all? Does glxinfo produce lots of output, with
> 'direct rendering: Yes' near the top? If not, your're using software
> rendering, all is done by the CPU, not the GPU.
>
> 	Wonko
>

That's what I am thinking.  I notice here lately that my CPU is being 
used a LOT more then it used to when playing videos or something.  I 
recently changed kernels and nvidia drivers, the kernel upgrade forced 
me to upgrade nvidia.  It appears to have gotten worse with each 
upgrade.  This is what I got from these two commands:

root@smoker / # eselect opengl list
Available OpenGL implementations:
   [1]   nvidia *
   [2]   xorg-x11


root@smoker / # glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
     GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
     GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
     GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
     GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
     GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
     GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
     GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
     GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_NV_present_video
GLX version: 1.3
GLX extensions:
     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
     GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
     GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer,
     GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.25
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler

<<SNIPPED??

It says direct rendering is working but it sure doesn't act like it.  I 
watched a video a bit ago and although it was a small thing, only took 
about 20% of my screen, it used just about all the CPU power.  It didn't 
do that a few months or so ago.  It used to take only 25% or so to do a 
full screen video.  This is really weird.

I did take the side off my case a hour or so ago.  I took my air tank 
and blew it out pretty good.  I also checked to make sure the fan was 
turning on the video card chip.  It was spinning fine and I could feel a 
little bit of air.  It's a small fan so I wasn't expecting a tornado or 
anything.  Anyway, after blowing it out AND generating a xorg-conf with 
nvidia's program, I get this:

root@smoker / # glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
2932 frames in 5.0 seconds = 586.390 FPS
1260 frames in 5.7 seconds = 222.873 FPS
2 frames in 7.6 seconds =  0.263 FPS
2 frames in 8.0 seconds =  0.249 FPS
2 frames in 7.6 seconds =  0.264 FPS
2 frames in 7.7 seconds =  0.259 FPS
XIO:  fatal IO error 22 (Invalid argument) on X server ":0.0"
       after 58 requests (58 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
root@smoker / #

Well, if it wasn't bad enough before, it is really bad now.  The first 
couple were when the window was really small.  I adjusted it to full 
screen which is where the 0.2 FPS comes in.  That used to be about 30 or 
so a while back.

This is with the nvidia generated xorg.conf file.  I'm going back to my 
hand made one.  It seems to be a little better.

Any ideas as to why everything says it is working but it isn't?

Dale

:-)  :-)