From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 09:19:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEEA516A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:19:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from itchy.rabson.org (mailgate.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFA743D46 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:19:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from ns0.nlsystems.com (ns0.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.243]) by itchy.rabson.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7J9Ivn3010612; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:18:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) From: Doug Rabson To: Mayo Jordanov Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:19:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com> <1092903551.85924.14.camel@einstein.local.nfy> In-Reply-To: <1092903551.85924.14.camel@einstein.local.nfy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408191019.15653.dfr@nlsystems.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on itchy.rabson.org X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.75.1, clamav-milter version 0.75c on itchy.rabson.org X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues with the nvidia driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:19:02 -0000 On Thursday 19 August 2004 09:19, Mayo Jordanov wrote: > First of all, thank you and Nvidia for all the work. > > I've been using the driver since it has been announced here, and it > works great for most of things (dual head X, etc, etc), however, I > see some issues with GL. > > When I run glxgears (or any program that uses GL - glxgears and some > of the X screen savers is what I've been testing with) it runs just > fine, giving me around 2500fps. > As soon as I stop glxgears, and run it again, it will produce about > 6fps. In order to get it back up to speed, I have to wait between 10 > or 20 minutes; after that it runs just fine again. If I quit it, and > run again, I get around 3 to 6 fps, wait 10 to 20 mins, and on and > on. > > Each time (high fps rate, and low fps rate) the CPU gets maxed out, > with a slight diference though: when it's producing high fps rates, > there are no problems getting other things to run smoothly, the CPU > time is simply taken away from glxgears and fps drops. However, when > it's producing low fps rates, the system becomes very unresponsive, > until I manage to kill or quit glxgears. You need to update to a more recent version of current. There were a couple of VM problems that affected the nvidia driver and I committed patches for them a couple of weeks ago. This is exactly the symptom that I had before applying those patches. If you don't want to update to current, you could manually apply the patches which are available in the doc directory of the driver distribution.