From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 16 03:50:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A26116A405 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:50:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E2813C45B for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:50:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.141] (may be forged)) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2G3oMYo012885 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:23 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.41] (c-67-187-172-183.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.172.183]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2G3oMll000754 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:22 -0700 Message-ID: <45FA13FD.10608@u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070122) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <80f4f2b20703151037q270e46b7x9c528908b8634cc4@mail.gmail.com> <200703151804.35879.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca> In-Reply-To: <200703151804.35879.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.3.15.203934 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:50:23 -0000 Norbert Papke wrote: > On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:37, Jim Stapleton wrote: >> Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower >> than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers >> area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200. >> These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup. > >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > [...] >> Section "Extensions" >> Option "Composite" "Enable" >> EndSection > > Even though the nvidia drivers claim to support OpenGL with the composite > extension enabled, my experience has been that it leads to performance > similar to what you are describing. Try disabling composite. > > Cheers, > > -- Norbert. True. Composite still isn't the greatest under the 6.9 branch of Xorg (and it wasn't that great under Xorg 7.0 either). It might have improved since then though in 7.1/7.2. -Garrett