Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia + glxgears slower than before

[Jakob]

On 12/19/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> 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@g.o mailing list
>
> Hmm ok, I still think its very strange that I didnt get that much FPS than
the first time an someone with the same notebook still does.

does someone know a benchmak tool for opengl?
I searched in portage but I didnt find one.

Regard

Jakob