Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:19:15 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mayo Jordanov <mayo@mayo.sk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues with the nvidia driver Message-ID: <200408191019.15653.dfr@nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <1092903551.85924.14.camel@einstein.local.nfy> References: <200408141934.24107.dfr@nlsystems.com> <1092903551.85924.14.camel@einstein.local.nfy>
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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.home | help
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