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Really, really appreciate the help guys. You've been more patient and helpful than I could've hoped for. :) I have some small amount of extra info for you that may or may not help. I'm in Windows now. There's a freeware utility called FreshDiagnose that can assess the state of the AGP bus. According to it, the AGP is enabled and working. I attached a snapshot of the relevant section here. Now, in that FPS game that I'm becoming addicted to (which has equivalent versions under Linux and Win), the frame rates for the Windows version are somewhat (like 20 to 30 %) better, but not massively better. In fact, to get decent (30 frames per sec) movement, I need to downgrade my graphics in Windows to 800*600 with 32 bit color. For very good playability (50 to 70 fps), I need to go all the way to 640*480, even in Windows. This is similar to Linux, although in Linux, it's still slower at every resolution and color depth I set. So I really dunno whether the AGP is really not being initialised under Linux or whether that's just a misleading message ? :unsure:

I'm booted into Windows right now, but luckily I've installed ext2fs R/W. Here's the dump from /etc/modprobe.preload : (I'm viewing this thru' a Windows text editor, I hope the formatting's OK, I dunno why via_agp appears twice). # /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. # this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY # for old kernel use /etc/modules via-agp via-agp So I should comment out the via_agp lines ? Do I need to make any other alterations ? Thanks, will try this when I next boot into Linux. Oh, yeah, this may be important. Interestingly, when I ran the search, I found another file called "#modprobe.preload#" which may be a recovered file from an unclean shutdown (power loss). This file (the ? recovered file fragment) has these contents : # /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. # this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY # for old kernel use /etc/modules via-agp via-agp nvidi And the file seems to end there. This looks suggestive - do you think the original file had nvidia_agp or something there and this got lost during the recovery ? Maybe the NVIDIA AGP was being loaded by this old file but is not being loaded anymore since the crash. What should I put in the new file to rectify the problem ? Thanks.

Unfortunately, the downgrade to versio 7174 didn't help. AGP still not initialising :( Here's the output from "lsmod | grep agp" /sbin/lsmod | grep agp via_agp 7584 0 agpgart 29032 2 nvidia,via_agp

Well, the problem may not be the video card you have - it may be the kernel, though usually the problem is reverse (older drivers not working with newer kernels), but it's a possibility. You should check to see what AGP your system is loading: lsmod | grep agp just to be sure you're getting agpgart. Well, my dmesg shows this line : Linux agpgart interface v0.101 © Dave Jones so I should have agpgart right ?

Hmm. The README for the 8756 claims that this driver will support the GeForce 2 MX400. Oh, well, wouldn't hurt to try the earlier driver. :) Thanks for the clarification, tyme. I need AGPART for my Chipset, according to the readme.

I am running 8756 on Mandriva 2006 free, you mean I should roll it back ? I had problems with 8756 and kernel 2.6.12-12mdk which comes with the install DVD for Mandriva. I rolled it back to 8178 and it worked fine. Then I upgraded the kernel to the latest stable 2.6.12-18mdk and then upgraded the driver to 8756 and it seemed to work with the newer kernel. But then I have these problems - so maybe it's not really working well at all. BTW, I tried adding the extra lines I saw in your xorg.conf (like NvAGP "3" and so forth) to mine. I couldn't add them under driver "nvidia" - x wouldn't start saying that lines like Option "DPMS" were not in the right section. So I added them later on under the Screen Section. No error message this time, and X would start with the NVIDIA splash screen, but AGP still failed to initialise (no improvement over before). So those extra lines didn't help. Setting AGP rate to 2X failed to help either. I will try rolling back the driver when I am next booting into Linux. Greatly appreciate your patient help, Dan. :) :)

No, I was always using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers for Linux. I booted into Windows for comparison (I have a dual boot with XP). I hadn't previously installed the NVIDIA drivers under Windows (since the Win drivers work well with DirectX rendering), but I wanted to use OpenGL to compare, so I got the Windows NVIDIA proprietary drivers too. Sorry for the confusion. All the earlier posts in the thread pertain to NVIDIA proprietary drivers under Linux. Only my latest post referenced WinXP. I'm looking for a glxgears program for Windows to run a comparison with the results in Linux, but cannot find it.

Tried but it didn't help. I booted into WinXP and ran DXDIAG - indicates that my AGP is running OK under windows, and all the tests were OK. I d/led the OpenGL drivers from NVIDIA and they seem to work. The frame rates are somewhat better than the equivalent ones I was getting under Linux for Tremulous (an FPS game), and the gameplay seems smoother. So it may be a purely Linux problem (or the Linux NVIDIA driver problem). This sux. :(

MSI V-class VIA P4M800 + VT8237 chipset model PM8M-V Intel Celeron 2.26 GHz if that helps.

Here is my entire xorg.conf : Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Plug'n Play" ModelName "BenQ T705" HorizSync 31.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 ModeLine "1280x1024" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.0 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 ModeLine "768x576" 63.1 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Wed Mar 29 14:43:26 PST 2006 # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" 0 0 EndSection Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work Option "allowmouseopenfail" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corp." BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" Driver "nvidia" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Option "DPMS" EndSection There are obviously parts referencing the AGP missing from my file which are present in yours. I just let the installer do the modification. Are these missing parts the key or is it a BIOS problem ? I couldn't find a BIOS setting to disable the onboard video. I'll have to look again. :( Really appreciate your ongoing help, thanks.

Thank you ! Now I know the problem is with the AGP slot. Here's my output. cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status && cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card && cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge Status: Disabled AGP initialization failed, please check the ouput of the 'dmesg' command and/or your system log file for additional information on this problem. Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Not Supported AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x Registers: 0x1f000017:0x00000000 Host Bridge: PCI device 1106:0314 Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x Registers: 0x07000217:0x00000000 Should I do anything with the BIOS ? Problem is, it all seems OK, and some of the options look a little cryptic. Here's roughly what I have in the BIOS : AGP Aperture size : 64 MB (was previously at 128 MB, but I reset it, since I only have a 64 MB card) AGP rate : 4X (max) AGP fast writes : ENABLED (was previously disabled, but it doesn't make a difference to the performance) Video Share RAM : DISABLED (was previously 64 MB) I don't know what this option is for exactly, but it sounds like it pertains to the onboard card rather than the add-on so I disabled it. It doesn't affect the output of the commands). Memory hole : DISABLED There are some other settings which I forget (and since it's the BIOS I can't copy and paste). Please let me know if you need added info. Also, here's the dmesg output, I put the whole thing in the codebox. dmesg Linux version 2.6.12-18mdk (qateam@mercury.mandriva.com) (gcc version 4.0.1 (4.0.1-5mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0)) #1 Wed Mar 15 13:15:23 MST 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fef0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003fef3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000003fef3000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 126MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000f37c0 On node 0 totalpages: 261872 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 32496 pages, LIFO batch:15 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 P4M80P ) @ 0x000f7950 ACPI: RSDT (v001 P4M80P AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef3040 ACPI: FADT (v001 P4M80P AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef30c0 ACPI: MADT (v001 P4M80P AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef8240 ACPI: DSDT (v001 P4M80P AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 3ff00000 (gap: 3ff00000:bed00000) Built 1 zonelists mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) Initializing CPU#0 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=341 resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent bootsplash: silent mode. PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Detected 2268.860 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 1033476k/1047488k available (2348k kernel code, 13224k reserved, 717k data, 268k init, 129984k highmem, 0k BadRAM) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 4472.83 BogoMIPS (lpj=2236416) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 monitor/mwait feature present. using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 0000441d 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled CPU: Intel® Celeron® CPU 2.26GHz stepping 01 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found. ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 435k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf9f50, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050309 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) EHCI early BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs *20) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs *21) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs *22) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs *23) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 © Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices PnPBIOS: Disabled PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x400-0x47f could not be reserved pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x500-0x50f has been reserved apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1145778811.077:0): initialized highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Initializing Cryptographic API vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3750k, total 65536k vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:c060 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 34430 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 34382 bytes, v3). Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 93x30 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 0xc PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 112 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize pktcdvd: v0.2.0a 2004-07-14 Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de) and petero2@telia.com Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 20 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.1[A] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.1, from 255 to 4 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: IC35L120AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 20, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: SONY DVD RW DW-G120A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX230E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 1024KiB hda: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 > hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 39876480 sectors (20416 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63 hdb: cache flushes not supported /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) NET: Registered protocol family 1 swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature? ACPI wakeup devices: SLPB PCI0 USB3 USB4 USB5 USB6 USB7 LAN0 AC97 UAR1 ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 3 devices found devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for md/0 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 368KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... <6>input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 done. VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 1.11 loaded. sata_via version 1.1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[B] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0f.0, from 11 to 4 sata_via(0000:00:0f.0): routed to hard irq line 4 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0f.0 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF000 ctl 0xEC02 bmdma 0xE000 irq 20 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE800 ctl 0xE402 bmdma 0xE008 irq 20 ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi0 : sata_via ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi1 : sata_via usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] enabled at IRQ 21 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.0 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 21, io base 0x0000d400 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1[A] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.1 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000d000 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.2[B] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 11 to 5 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 21, io base 0x0000cc00 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.3[B] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.3, from 11 to 5 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.3 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 21, io base 0x0000c800 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.4[C] -> Link [ALKB] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.4, from 11 to 5 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.4 to 64 ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: irq 21, io mem 0xfdffd000 ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.4: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb 5-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 4 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Vendor: Maxtor 6 Model: Y080L0 Rev: YAR4 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 usb-storage: device scan complete Vendor: Generic Model: USB Storage-CFC Rev: I19A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Vendor: Generic Model: USB Storage-SDC Rev: I19A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Vendor: Generic Model: USB Storage-SMC Rev: I19A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Vendor: Generic Model: USB Storage-MSC Rev: I19A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 usb-storage: device scan complete SCSI device sda: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 2 Attached scsi removable disk sde at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 3 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 268k freed usbcore: registered new driver hiddev input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:10.1-2 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal Adding 1060248k swap on /dev/hdb5. Priority:-1 extents:1 Linux agpgart interface v0.101 © Dave Jones kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hdb7, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Supermount version 2.0.4 for kernel 2.6 ntfs: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones NTFS driver 2.1.22 [Flags: R/O DEBUG MODULE]. NTFS volume version 3.1. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hdb8, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hdb6, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hdb9, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. loop: loaded (max 8 devices) hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 34430 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 34382 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on) ACPI-0352: *** Error: Looking up [RTMP] in namespace, AE_NOT_FOUND search_node c18ec820 start_node c18ec820 return_node 00000000 ACPI-1138: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node c18ec820), AE_NOT_FOUND Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 IPVS: Registered protocols (TCP, UDP, AH, ESP) IPVS: Connection hash table configured (size=4096, memory=32Kbytes) IPVS: Each connection entry needs 120 bytes at least IPVS: ipvs loaded. NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c03c5e60(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver process `sysctl' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) net.ipv6.neigh.lo.base_reachable_time; Use net.ipv6.neigh.lo.base_reachable_time_ms instead. NET: Registered protocol family 17 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8e7a000, 00:30:4f:26:66:74, IRQ 18 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' eth0: link down via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] enabled at IRQ 23 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [ALKD] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:12.0, from 5 to 7 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:12.0 to 64 eth1: VIA Rhine II at 0x1c000, 00:16:17:12:b7:79, IRQ 23. eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link 41e1. eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: Printer, Canon BJC-255SP lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). lp0: console ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present ppdev: user-space parallel port driver ppdev0: registered pardevice eth1: no IPv6 routers present ppdev0: negotiated back to compatibility mode because user-space forgot ppdev0: unregistered pardevice via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate. Please try dxs_support=5 option and report if it works on your machine. For more details, read ALSA-Configuration.txt. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] enabled at IRQ 22 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> Link [ALKC] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.5, from 11 to 6 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64 nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64 NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8756 Wed Mar 29 14:26:26 PST 2006 bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 10117 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on Please help if you can, thanks.

Yes, but I still don't see the exact difference b/w issuing "export PATH=..." compard to simply "PATH=..."

Just wondering, what should the window size be when glxgears is run ? The default window is mini-sized but can be resized. Should it be made fullscreen for a valid frame rate ? The frame rate when the window is small is much greater than when it is full screen. Also should the focus be on the window with the moving gears or on the terminal that launched it ? Thanks. BTW, I use an NVIDIA GeForce MX2 card with 64MB RAM plugged into AGP with the NVIDIA drivers. Screen res is 1280*1024 (lcd) In a small window, glxgears gives me around 330 frames per second. Full screen, it's only 30 frames/second. Is this abnormally low ? When I shift the focus completely off the windows I get over 2000 frames per second registering on the console. :huh: Here's the output from glxinfo. name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation server glx version string: 1.4 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation client glx version string: 1.4 client glx extensions: GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: GeForce2 MX/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 1.5.6 NVIDIA 87.56 OpenGL extensions: GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object, GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shader_objects, GL_ARB_shading_language_100, GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_S3_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_Cg_shader, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_paletted_texture, GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_KTX_buffer_region, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_fence, GL_NV_fog_distance, GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil, GL_NV_pixel_data_range, GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_NV_register_combiners, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_env_combine4, GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_vertex_array_range, GL_NV_vertex_array_range2, GL_NV_vertex_program, GL_NV_vertex_program1_1, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_multitexture, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SUN_slice_accum glu version: 1.3 glu extensions: GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

Thanks, I had to lower the quality of textures to get smooth playability. BTW, foot, I've sorta been banned from one of the servers - I was being an idiot, there was noone else logged on so I decided to see if I could shoot my own turret till it blew up (I could). Then I got banned. Is it by handle or IP ? Permanent or I will be let back in later ? Thanks. I feel like such a noob (I am, at this sort of thing). :lol:

I dunno, everything seems OK in my xorg.conf. I get better 20+ fps and much more fluid motion if I'm running medium or low quality rendering for the textures etc. but if I put everything at the highest, it gets as low as 8 or 9 fps when there's a lot of stuff going on. This is a 64 MB NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX400 card (AGP), I never really game, so I don't know how good it should be. What card are you using ? And are you running highest quality for the rendering ? Problem may be with BIOS settings, next time I boot up I will see if I get any better after disabling the onboard video.