On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:41, Clint Harshaw wrote: > Marc Schwartz wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just a quick heads up that NVidia has made available new drivers > > (version 5336) available, which now include support for the 2.6 kernel. > > > > I am not running 2.6, however I did install the new drivers this morning > > on a Dell i8200 laptop with a 64 Mb 440 Go card. Using the 4496 drivers, > > I got around 2000 FPS with glxgears. With 5336, I am getting around 2100 > > FPS with glxgears. > > > [...] > > I've just installed it as well, and it went in just fine without using > the CC="gcc32" drill. > > Am I misunderstanding your frames-per-second though? I looked at the > frames-per-second for the gears screensaver, and I'm seeing only around > 50 fps. That's on a stock PogoLinux Veronna workstation. > > Clint I think the difference is that you are probably running the gears screensaver full screen, whereas the numbers that I gave above are from glxgears running from a console, which is not full screen. If I run gears full screen, showing the FPS, I am also getting around 50 FPS. Here is a sampling of the output during glxgears from a console: 10226 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2045.200 FPS 10246 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2049.200 FPS 10230 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2046.000 FPS 10220 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2044.000 FPS 10218 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2043.600 FPS 10157 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2031.400 FPS 10187 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2037.400 FPS These numbers are about 50 - 75 FPS slower than what I first got after starting X, before loading other apps. These numbers are with Evolution and gmplayer running. BTW, I forgot to mention that I am running the 2.4.22-1.2163.nptl kernel. HTH, Marc
