[Ilugc] Nvidia problems in debian
- From: Toufeeq_Hussain@xxxxxxxxxxx (Toufeeq Hussain)
- Date: Mon Jan 3 13:52:34 2005
Hi,
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Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Nvidia problems in debian
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:07:11 +0530
"Toufeeq Hussain" <Toufeeq_Hussain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I seem to be having much better performance with the native "nv"
driver than the "nvidia" driver.
On my machine, I've found both the "nv" and "nvidia" driver
perform equally well for most 2D apps (atleast I could not
differentiate their performance/stability). However, "nvidia"
driver performs best for 3D apps (high-end games and other
OpenGL applications). Infact,
UT2004 runs stable and fast on Linux when compared to Windows
2000 (with nvidia detonator drivers installed on my machine earlier).
My issues are purely 2D and under heavy load.
Heavy load for my desktop is
*Firefox (5+ tabs)
*X-Chat (5+ tabs)
*Thunderbird
*GNOME 2.8
*GAIM
*gnome-terminal (3+ tabs)
-- tab1 runs apt-get
-- tab2 runs kernel/software compilation
-- bash
*XMMS
*OOImpress + gedit
The box is a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz /w 512M
Graphics Card is a GeForce FX 5900 XT /w 128M
Try running the following apps, first with "nvidia" and then with "nv"
With "nv" the interactivity is fluent where as with "nvidia" my mouse
skips a few events.
Workspace switching is slow.
Probably because this is a kernel issue.
I'm running 2.6.10 /w ckdev patchset + inotify.
Also the best test would be to cat a huge file to /dev/null or /dev/zero
And then generate random X Events and check the interactivity.
Also, has anyone managed to get the nvidia drivers running
with 2.6.10
? The driver install fails with "Cannot determine the
kernel version"
I've got it working on Slackware (2.6.10-cko patched kernel) with
1.0-6629 version of nvidia driver.
Ah, a -ck patchset user :)
Also, I run the same driver version on Sarge.
I've tried the following methods but still no success
* A plain run of the installer
* installer with the -ae switch
* extract the package and running a "make-install"
The driver installs fine on my stock Sarge Kernel.
Regards,
Toufeeq Hussain
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