Breezy/X.org/nVidia poor performance

[Matt Patterson]

Dave Walker wrote:

> Francis Viviers wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 01 September 2005 17:50, David Walker wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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 ;)
>>>   
>>
>>
>> OK, i dont use breezy but i think i know what the problem is. Check 
>> the following :
>>
>> 1.  That the driver being used in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for your 
>> screencard is nvidia and not something like vesa etc.
>>
>> 2. In the same xorg.conf file check if it has : Load "glx" in there 
>> somewhere or something similair.
>>
>> 3. Is the open gl packages for your ubuntu system installed.
>>
>> Any one of these can make video performance of nvidia cards slow. I 
>> hope this helps.
>>
>> Francis Viviers
>>
>>  
>>
> 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.
>
> -- 
> dave
>
If you are using the nvidia driver and glx you should not be loading 
dri/GLcore. That is the first step in the instructions for installing 
the nvidia binary drivers. I doubt that will change anything, but 
thought I should give you a heads up.

Matt