Re: nvidia driver ( GeForce FX 5500 gives 10fps)

[Michal Hajek <hajek1@karlov.mff.cuni.cz>]

Hello :)

Thank you for reply. 

> The nvidia libGL libraries should override the Mesa ones as they are 
> conflicting, ie provide the same functions but are not HW accelerated.

aha :) Ok than the diversion seems to be justified. But still I do not
see why the setiathome decreeses the 3D acceleration so much. 

> at which priority (nice-level) does Seti run on your machine? Does 'nice
> -n0 glxgears' change anything? (Or perheaps 'nice -n-20 glxgears' as
> root

I run setiathome from wmsetimon applet (wmsetimon 0.5-2). It is somehow
broken and gives it a nice value 0 even if I specify nice value 20 in
.wmsetimonrc.

But anyway, if I :
$renice +20 8691
8691: old priority 0, new priority 19
$
and after that:
$ glxgears 
935 frames in 5.0 seconds = 187.000 FPS
947 frames in 5.0 seconds = 189.400 FPS
998 frames in 5.0 seconds = 199.600 FPS
1345 frames in 5.0 seconds = 269.000 FPS
950 frames in 5.0 seconds = 190.000 FPS

But if I stop setiathome and than run
$ glxgears
15898 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3179.600 FPS
29568 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5913.600 FPS
29803 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5960.600 FPS
28815 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5763.000 FPS
33334 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6666.800 FPS
34156 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6831.200 FPS
25737 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5147.400 FPS
13591 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2718.200 FPS

So renice change the speed. So I still wonder what is the distribution
of the load between cpu and video chip. Evidently, cpu does a lot of
work here :) 

Best regards
Michal