Guest Adriano Posted January 26, 2004 Report Share Posted January 26, 2004 As the title explains, I was looking to improve the performance of armagetron and 3d games with my shiny 2.6.1 kernel. I found that nVIDIA have released an update to their drivers. It specifies it supports 2.6 kernels, among other things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted January 26, 2004 Report Share Posted January 26, 2004 Thats cool ! We also have a nvidia driver that works with the new 2.6 kernel on our -d-load site ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/Nvidia/nvidia-kernel_2.6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted January 26, 2004 Report Share Posted January 26, 2004 So far, so-so. i am trying the new driver but cannot get GL acceleration to work (I get 9 fps on armagetron and Cube, previously 120~). Perhaps after a bit of thinking... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted January 26, 2004 Report Share Posted January 26, 2004 Ok, here's the latest n' greatest about this rev. -The slowness problems I mentioned were due to a mis installation of the driver. I tried Cube and ArmageTron again, with excellent results. - The installer seems to hang on ending (it displays "100% complete" but does'nt end). It's working, just give it time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 26, 2004 Report Share Posted January 26, 2004 Thats cool ! We also have a nvidia driver that works with the new 2.6 kernel on our -d-load site ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/Nvidia/nvidia-kernel_2.6 probably the same hack :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Indeed, but this would be an "official" hack. Driver rev 5336, IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 On my mdk9.2 I never managed to install nvidia drivers... should it be easier with this one? Anyone had any problems? Except it "hanging" on 100%? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 no prob here but I'm pclinuxos. What hung at 100%? Processor? Install? If Install, do Ctrl>Alt>F2 killall make killall cc1 (If I remember right) then run the installer again w/o uninstalling. That has happened to me twice, but it was with kernel-2.6. I'm 2.4.23 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Nothing hangs actually. It's just that the installer displays "100%" for a very long time without finishing, so it "seems" like it had hung up. If you give it time, the installation is completed. BTW, I've never had problems installing nVIDIA drivers on my 9.2 box. Top Dog, can you describe to us more precisely what you did to install, and what happened then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 (edited) Just ran through the installation, updated the XF86Conifg file and everything, got a tip to run glxgears to check that it's installed... but these numbers doesn't tell me anything!? 4405 frames in 5.0 seconds = 881.000 FPS 7571 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1514.200 FPS 13027 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2605.400 FPS 13333 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2666.600 FPS 13104 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2620.800 FPS 13308 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2661.600 FPS 13306 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2661.200 FPS 13489 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2697.800 FPS 12629 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2525.800 FPS 15041 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3008.200 FPS 15406 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3081.200 FPS 15397 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3079.400 FPS 12081 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2416.200 FPS 5468 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1093.600 FPS 7980 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1596.000 FPS 11722 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2344.400 FPS 14085 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2817.000 FPS 14193 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2838.600 FPS Can anyone tell me of this is good or bad? EDIT: My specs are: Geforce4 MX 400 (nForce2-chipset) 32MB shared memory. And I run an old LCD 15' with only 1024*768 Edited January 28, 2004 by TopDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Depending on your hardware; doesn't seem bad to me; I get this: 10998 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2199.600 FPS 13205 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2641.000 FPS 14035 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2807.000 FPS 13418 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2683.600 FPS 13518 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2703.600 FPS (running 2.4.22-23mdk with 5328 nvidia driver on 1600x1200 res -- size of glxgears window matters a lot, and also the resolution and other things running) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 (edited) Well, I get this: [adriano@Edhellond adriano]$ glxgears 3700 frames in 5.0 seconds = 740.000 FPS 2474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 494.800 FPS 2088 frames in 5.0 seconds = 417.600 FPS 3120 frames in 5.0 seconds = 624.000 FPS 2790 frames in 5.0 seconds = 558.000 FPS 1654 frames in 5.0 seconds = 330.800 FPS running a 2.6.1 kernel with a res of 1024x768 (my monitor doesn't do more than that). I have an nVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 400 with 64 mb ram... My proc is an Athlon XP 1700+, not overclocked. The size of glxgears is the default for my res. Is this good or bad? Edited January 28, 2004 by Adrianovaroli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 I've been getting over 1900fps with the new driver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 Good. And your specs are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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