lawsonrc Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 I have three different computers (one desktop and two laptops) that use different models of Nvidia cards: GeForce4 440 Go, FX5200, etc. I have installed MDV2006 POWERPACK on all three. When I am in Windows XP, I can get on the internet and play streaming videos smoothly and with sound (using either Realplayer or Windows Media Player). When I try to play streaming video from the internet in MDV06, using Realplay or Mplayer (with win32codecs), the videos are all slow and jerky, and with no sound. In addition, on Firefox, I have about 17 tabs set as home pages to open simultaneously. Although the browser opens up maximized, the home pages don't open immediately as maximized, but the size of a normal window. Then after about 4 or 5 seconds the pages maximize. This to me means that the Nvidia driver on all three machines is slower than on WindowsXP. What would be some solutions? I don't want to sacrifice 3D Acceleration, if possible, as I like to play tuxracer, etc. Thanks, Richard L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Make sure that you are running a kernel optimized for your OS (a 686 rather than 386 one), check in the list for kernels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Is AGP enabled? cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status What kind of score do you see when running glxgears? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawsonrc Posted January 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 (edited) Thanks Aomighty, I appreciate your input. The two laptops were purchased in Mar 2002 and Jan 2003. They were at that time Toshiba's top of the Satellite Line: Toshiba 5005 and Toshiba 5205. I used Mandriva's default, which, I believe, is 586. I assumed this is appropriate for both laptops Thanks daniewicz. Here is the output for the Toshiba 5005-S507: Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 4x Fast Writes: Disabled SBA: Disabled [man2006@localhost ~]$ glxgears 958 frames in 5.0 seconds = 191.587 FPS 1785 frames in 5.0 seconds = 356.933 FPS 1741 frames in 5.0 seconds = 348.065 FPS 627 frames in 10.4 seconds = 60.049 FPS 22 frames in 6.2 seconds = 3.528 FPS 1162 frames in 5.0 seconds = 232.347 FPS 1763 frames in 5.0 seconds = 352.590 FPS 1762 frames in 5.0 seconds = 352.348 FPS 1764 frames in 5.0 seconds = 352.728 FPS 1496 frames in 5.6 seconds = 268.877 FPS 254 frames in 5.3 seconds = 48.359 FPS 3 frames in 6.7 seconds = 0.446 FPS 6 frames in 5.9 seconds = 1.026 FPS 2 frames in 5.4 seconds = 0.374 FPS 3 frames in 5.2 seconds = 0.577 FPS 4 frames in 5.7 seconds = 0.704 FPS 3 frames in 7.6 seconds = 0.394 FPS 2 frames in 5.2 seconds = 0.383 FPS 3 frames in 6.5 seconds = 0.462 FPS 555 frames in 5.5 seconds = 100.501 FPS 833 frames in 5.0 seconds = 166.552 FPS 1659 frames in 5.0 seconds = 331.731 FPS 1714 frames in 5.0 seconds = 342.712 FPS 1724 frames in 5.0 seconds = 344.761 FPS 1771 frames in 5.0 seconds = 354.106 FPS 556 frames in 5.0 seconds = 111.179 FPS 1669 frames in 5.0 seconds = 333.615 FPS 1747 frames in 5.0 seconds = 349.386 FPS 1696 frames in 5.0 seconds = 339.198 FPS 1132 frames in 5.0 seconds = 226.278 FPS 1716 frames in 5.0 seconds = 343.186 FPS 723 frames in 5.0 seconds = 143.739 FPS 854 frames in 5.0 seconds = 170.744 FPS 1215 frames in 5.0 seconds = 242.921 FPS 1731 frames in 5.0 seconds = 346.028 FPS 1720 frames in 5.0 seconds = 343.872 FPS 1633 frames in 5.0 seconds = 326.530 FPS 1152 frames in 5.8 seconds = 199.588 FPS 1152 frames in 5.0 seconds = 230.358 FPS 1529 frames in 5.0 seconds = 305.656 FPS 1664 frames in 5.0 seconds = 332.681 FPS 1663 frames in 5.0 seconds = 332.512 FPS 1230 frames in 5.0 seconds = 245.920 FPS 1657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 331.235 FPS 777 frames in 5.0 seconds = 154.131 FPS 1418 frames in 5.0 seconds = 283.448 FPS 1735 frames in 5.0 seconds = 346.897 FPS 1657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 331.258 FPS 1103 frames in 5.2 seconds = 211.116 FPS 1568 frames in 5.0 seconds = 313.544 FPS 1720 frames in 5.0 seconds = 343.994 FPS 1086 frames in 5.0 seconds = 215.381 FPS 1246 frames in 5.0 seconds = 249.185 FPS 1729 frames in 5.0 seconds = 345.644 FPS 1717 frames in 5.0 seconds = 343.339 FPS X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [man2006@localhost ~]$ And here is the output from the Toshiba 5205-S703: Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 4x Fast Writes: Disabled SBA: Disabled [richard@localhost ~]$ glxgears 9313 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1862.508 FPS 9554 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1909.327 FPS 813 frames in 5.0 seconds = 162.512 FPS 821 frames in 5.0 seconds = 164.090 FPS 10703 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2140.470 FPS 11256 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2251.149 FPS 11398 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2279.481 FPS 11399 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2279.758 FPS 11418 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2283.482 FPS 11282 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2256.246 FPS 11404 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2280.716 FPS 11401 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2280.151 FPS 11295 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2258.920 FPS 11403 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2280.549 FPS 11393 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2278.597 FPS 10923 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2184.364 FPS 11339 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2267.702 FPS 11302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2260.316 FPS 11196 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2237.489 FPS 11156 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2231.030 FPS 11327 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2265.270 FPS 8328 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1665.494 FPS 11219 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2243.750 FPS 11067 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2213.361 FPS 10725 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2144.958 FPS 11281 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2256.122 FPS 11358 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2271.559 FPS 7493 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1498.365 FPS X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [richard@localhost ~]$ So there they are. I can see that the 5005 has much worse output than the 5205. However, the 5205 is also showing slower, jerkier streaming video whereas its WinXP shows them perfectly. Edited January 3, 2006 by lawsonrc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Hmmm. It appears that you have AGP activated as needed. That is a large dip in the glxgear scores. I am afraid I do not have any answer for you. I have heard people complaining about xorg issues with Mandriva 2006. I wonder if your problem would go away with the more mature Mandriva 2005? Consider this a bump. There are many others here much more knowledgeable than myself who will be along to help soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 One thought that occurred to me was your NVidia driver. Did you download the driver from the NVidia website or use the NVidia driver from the Powerpack? Several here at MUB have found better success with the driver from the NVidia website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 lawsonrc, I have GeForce 6200 on my desktop and I downloaded from nvidia website and installed driver dated 051205 and 11.5 Mb. the driver also configure Xorg if you like. After that I get around 3.200 FPS, compared to powerpack driver around 400 FPS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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