Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 12:24:02 -0700 From: Mayo Jordanov <mayo@mayo.sk> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues with the nvidia driver Message-ID: <1093202641.747.2.camel@einstein.local.nfy> In-Reply-To: <200408191019.15653.dfr@nlsystems.com> References: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com> <1092903551.85924.14.camel@einstein.local.nfy> <200408191019.15653.dfr@nlsystems.com>
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--=-xmKTvluOnUvGUlDd47MC Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 02:19, Doug Rabson wrote: > 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. >=20 > You need to update to a more recent version of current. There were a=20 > couple of VM problems that affected the nvidia driver and I committed=20 > patches for them a couple of weeks ago. This is exactly the symptom=20 > that I had before applying those patches. >=20 > If you don't want to update to current, you could manually apply the=20 > patches which are available in the doc directory of the driver=20 > distribution. Thanks! cvsuped and working like charm. m --=-xmKTvluOnUvGUlDd47MC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBKPLR3IqYlN3K/uYRAixiAKCDeSHtFclkUwlcxxH5BFemWrVZZgCg8iQA bIxGLUmDYc3FJmBPt3mTa/Q= =lFse -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xmKTvluOnUvGUlDd47MC--
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