Breezy/X.org/nVidia poor performance

[Dave Walker]

Matt Patterson wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
Newp.  I did comment both out, and still is slow.

--
dave