Re: GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?
I'm not sure Nvidia's drivers work at 24bpp, so you might want to try
running at 16bpp. Also, you did remember to change the driver in your
XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if that file exists on your system) file to be
"nvidia" rather than "nv", right?
Gerry
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> I've got a Diamond Viper770 video card, which has a Nvidia TNT chip on it.
> Using the standard XFree86 4 nv driver, 3D performance is, well, poor. So
> I decided to install the driver from NVidia. I downloaded and installed
> the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages. With those, I built the
> nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-2.2.18 (yes, I'm using kernel 2.2.18)
> packages and installed those, too. Then I reconfigured the X server to use
> the new nvidia driver. But 3D performance is still as poor as it was
> before. Have I done something wrong and if so, what?
>
> BTW, I have tested the 3D performance by running the GLText demo from
> xscreensaver. With a resolution of 1600x1280 at 24bpp, I get about 2 fps.
>
> Remco
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