fglrx question

[Jonathan Berry]

On 3/1/07, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Wed February 28 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > And what sort of a cpu etc do you have there? Those figures are about 30x
> > what I'm getting after using the nvidia installer to put the most recent
> > driver in. This card, and I miss-spoke is a 3DForce 6200-256. the nv
> > driver would not even run it as well as the ATI ran, including limiting
> > the resolution to 1440x900, which is a far cry from square pixels here.
> > But after I'd installed the nvidia driver, I was back to my usual
> > 1600x1200 and looking good, but, on the XP-2800 Athlon with a gig of
> > 333FSB ram, glxgears, while obviously a heck of a lot smoother, isn't
> > anywhere near that fast:
> >
> > 5939 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1187.719 FPS
> > 5969 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1193.787 FPS
> > 5961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1192.097 FPS
>
> Currently, at home, I'm experiencing a big system barf. If I try to run
> GLXgears, the screen blacks out and after a few moments, it returns me to a
> log-in screen. Can't give any time to this this am because I have to go to an

That means X is crashing.  Probably a driver issue.  Are you using the
nVidia installer, or a packaged driver?  If the former, have you done
any X updates lately?

> appointment. The figures I cited were from my work machine which is a 2.66
> GHz P4, if I'm not mistaken - I'll double-check that when I get in. This
> machine is a dual-core 2.66 MHz w/ 2 GB ram.

That explains the difference in FPS values :-).

Jonathan