Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card Message-ID: <45FA13FD.10608@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200703151804.35879.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca> References: <80f4f2b20703151037q270e46b7x9c528908b8634cc4@mail.gmail.com> <200703151804.35879.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca>
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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
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