Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem
Hello
Bram Mertens (<bram-mertens@linux.be>) wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:34, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> [...]
>> Make sure, that the nvidia-glx package is installed as well. You also
>> must change the video driver from "nv" to "nvidia"
>> in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
>
> Done and done, and I restarted X as well.
>
> I started nvidia-settings and it brings up a nice menu showing that it
> recognised my graphics card as a "GeForce FX Go53xx".
>
> the +/- 32 FPS I mentioned earlier is what the "show FPS" option shows
> on the GL-screensavers (GLMatrix, ...)
>
> When I run glxgears from the command line I see very different
> figures: when glxgears is running in fullscreen mode I get about 1970
> frames in 5.0 seconds =~ 390.000 FPS
> when I give focus to the xterm I started glxgears from the figures
> rise to about 7790 frames in 5.0 seconds =~ 1560.000 FPS.
>
> Can anybody tell me where I can read about the meaning of all these
> figures? How I should interpret them, in what mode I should be
> running glxgears, etc.
Seems 3D acceleration works. The software mode would be much slower.
Maybe you want to activate AGP mode. Nvidia has extensive documentation
on their driver, which is in the nvidia-glx package
(/usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx).
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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