Breezy/X.org/nVidia poor performance

[Dave Walker]

Francis Viviers wrote:

>On Thursday 01 September 2005 17:50, David Walker wrote:
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>>I also see this problem, not on the login screen but within my favorite
>>game in the world, tuxracer.  I also noted that glxgears just crawls
>>along.  There is defiantly a problem here, and it is me not play1)ing
>>tuxracer ;)
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>OK, i dont use breezy but i think i know what the problem is. Check the 
>following :
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>1.  That the driver being used in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for your screencard is 
>nvidia and not something like vesa etc.
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>2. In the same xorg.conf file check if it has : Load "glx" in there somewhere 
>or something similair.
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>3. Is the open gl packages for your ubuntu system installed.
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>Any one of these can make video performance of nvidia cards slow. I hope this 
>helps.
>
>Francis Viviers
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1) Section "Device"
    Identifier  "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection



2)Section "Module"
    Load    "GLcore"
    Load    "bitmap"
    Load    "dbe"
    Load    "dri"
    Load    "extmod"
    Load    "freetype"
    Load    "glx"
    Load    "v4l"
EndSection


3) I have nvidia-glx installed.  I am unaware of any other packages to 
install for 3d support.

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dave