fglrx question

[Jonathan Berry]

On 2/28/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 24 February 2007, Jonathan Berry wrote:
[snip]
> >closely tied to your CPU and other factors.  I have a (PNY) 6600 GT
> >with 128 MB Video RAM and I get:
> >(with AIGLX enabled)
> >$ glxgears
> >19516 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3903.179 FPS
> >28603 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5720.504 FPS
> >27597 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5519.237 FPS
> >28336 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5661.658 FPS
> >(without AIGLX)
> >$ glxgears
> >37436 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7487.071 FPS
> >36616 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7322.496 FPS
> >37653 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7530.581 FPS
> >36758 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7351.457 FPS
> >
> >Jonathan
>
> And what sort of a cpu etc do you have there?  Those figures are about 30x

I have an Athlon64 3500+ (2.2 GHz), 2 GB RAM DDR400 dual-channel
running 64-bit FC6.

> what I'm getting after using the nvidia installer to put the most recent

The driver from Livna (or another repo, if you prefer, I forget which
other one has it) is really the better way to go.  I'm not sure if
things are better now, but be careful if you upgrade anything related
to X with the nVidia installer.

> driver in.  This card, and I miss-spoke is a 3DForce 6200-256.  the nv
> driver would not even run it as well as the ATI ran, including limiting
> the resolution to 1440x900, which is a far cry from square pixels here.

That's a widescreen format.  My LCD panel actually uses that resolution.

> But after I'd installed the nvidia driver, I was back to my usual
> 1600x1200 and looking good, but, on the XP-2800 Athlon with a gig of
> 333FSB ram, glxgears, while obviously a heck of a lot smoother, isn't
> anywhere near that fast:
>
> 5939 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1187.719 FPS
> 5969 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1193.787 FPS
> 5961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1192.097 FPS

A lot of that may be your CPU and RAM.  These are a few times faster
than the numbers Claude cited at first, which he said were on a 2.66
GHz P4.  So this may be about right.  Also remember that my 6600 GT is
a couple steps better than your 6200.

[snip]
> So what do I check next?  And, whats all that 'Ncon' stuff telling me?

I do not know anything about the glxinfo output.  It looks like things
are working to me.

Jonathan