From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 16 01:04:38 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 2531E16A400 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:04:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3E1213C43E for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:04:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Received: from pd5mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.233]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JEZ006A71NQX770@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:04:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd5mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JEZ00E0S1NQM0D0@pd5mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:04:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from proven. ([24.85.241.34]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JEZ008JW1NPGO80@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:04:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from proven. (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by proven. (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2G14a6p055563 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:04:36 -0700 (PDT envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by proven. (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l2G14atr055562 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:04:36 -0700 (PDT envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:04:35 -0700 From: Norbert Papke In-reply-to: <80f4f2b20703151037q270e46b7x9c528908b8634cc4@mail.gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200703151804.35879.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca> Organization: Archaeological Filing MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20703151037q270e46b7x9c528908b8634cc4@mail.gmail.com> X-Authentication-warning: proven.: npapke set sender to fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca using -f User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 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 01:04:38 -0000 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.