Subj : Nvidia drivers and glxgears
To   : alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.redhat.misc,tw.bbs.comp.linux
From : J. Smith
Date : Tue Jul 06 2004 04:09 pm

	I wonder if anybody here can give some feedback concerning an intriguing
issue with the Nvidia drivers.

	I've got two boxes with Nvidia cards - an old Riva TNT and a GeForce FX
5200 (or something like that.) In both cases, when I run glxgears with the
Nvidia drivers loaded, glxgears seems to return pitiful numbers - like 50
fps, and my boxes run Athlon CPUs at more than 1 GHz. However, when
running an application that depends on 3D acceleration for its
performance, such acceleration seems to be there. For instance, the
Molecules hack in xscreensaver runs completely smoothly and very fast at
1920x1440 resolution - quite different from what happens when running the
Nvidia drivers distributed with X.

	Any suggestions so as to why glxgears does not seem to report the right
thing?

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