On Thu March 1 2007 10:31:13 am Jonathan Berry wrote: > > Currently, at home, I'm experiencing a big system barf. If I > > try to run GLXgears, the screen blacks out and after a few > > moments, it returns me to a log-in screen. Can't give any > > time to this this am because I have to go to an > > That means X is crashing. Probably a driver issue. Are you > using the nVidia installer, or a packaged driver? If the > former, have you done any X updates lately? > Well, yes, X is crashing - I do know that, but, I haven't been able to figure out why. I did spend some considerable time on the NV forum the night before last, trying to sort it out, but, I'm at the point of having to turn on some logging and let folks look at results, and I haven't had time to get to that yet. > > appointment. The figures I cited were from my work machine > > which is a 2.66 GHz P4, if I'm not mistaken - I'll > > double-check that when I get in. This machine is a dual-core > > 2.66 MHz w/ 2 GB ram. > > That explains the difference in FPS values :-). How so? My slower machine is getting 3X faster fps values than my dual-core with twice the ram... To Gene: This machine (I'm at work, now), is a 2.8 GHz P4 with 1 GB of ram. GLXgears just produced this: glxgears 21379 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4275.750 FPS 30310 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6061.993 FPS 30308 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6061.511 FPS 30308 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6061.598 FPS 30152 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6030.331 FPS Pretty good. This is with an NVidia GForce 5500, 256 mb ram, AGP 8X card -- Claude Jones Brunswick, Md, USA