Mandriva PowerPack + Geforce FX 6500 = sluggish

[Guest Leonardo T. de Carvalho]

Hello all.

I've busy last week trying to understando why my Geforce 6500, PCI Express, with 512 MB doesn't works properly.

Searching the forums, found some issues based on dkpms packages.

But I'm using NVidia for a long time, and know how to make most of the adaptations and procedures to see what's wrong

, but this time I'm real stuck.

First, the hardware:

 

amd64-agp : VIA Technologies, Inc.|K8T890 Host Bridge [bRIDGE_HOST]

amd64-agp : VIA Technologies, Inc.|VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] [bRIDGE_PCI]

amd64-agp : Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]|K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [bRIDGE_HOST]

Card:NVIDIA GeForce FX - GeForce 7950: nVidia Corporation|GeForce 6500 [DISPLAY_VGA]

 

The mobo is a Asus A8V-E SE.

 

The driver:

NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 100.14.11 Wed Jun 13 18:21:22 PDT 2007

GCC version: gcc version 4.1.2 20070302 (prerelease) (4.1.2-1mdv2007.1)

 

The kernel:

Linux localhost 2.6.21.5-1mdv #1 Wed Jun 13 15:46:21 EDT 2007 i686 AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+ GNU/Linux

 

Now, the problems:

GLXGears at 1500 max, medium of 600 FPS (and the CPU at 100%)

Direct rendering enabled

Enemy Territory at 13 FPS max

Civ 4 on Cedega at 9 FPS max.

 

Any hint on why this ?

 

xorg.conf:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig

# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Wed Jun 13 18:39:30 PDT 2007

 

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 142098)

# **********************************************************************

# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of

# this file.

# **********************************************************************

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "layout1"

Screen "screen1" 0 0

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

EndSection

 

Section "Files"

 

# font server independent of the X server to render fonts.

# minimal fonts to allow X to run without xfs

ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia97xx"

ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"

FontPath "unix/:-1"

FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"

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 "kbd"

Option "XkbModel" "abnt2"

Option "XkbLayout" "br"

Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

 

# Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 64.0 kHz hsync, ratio 5/4)

Identifier "monitor1"

VendorName "Plug'n Play"

ModelName "L1953H "

HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0

VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0

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

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

Driver "nvidia"

VendorName "nVidia Corporation"

BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX - GeForce 7950"

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "screen1"

Device "device1"

Monitor "monitor1"

DefaultDepth 24

Option "ConnectToAcpid" "false"

Option "RenderAccel" "True"

Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"

Option "LoadKernelModule" "True"

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

Option "DamageEvents" "True"

Option "NvAGP" "1"

SubSection "Display"

Depth 8

Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 15

Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 16

Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"

EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"

Depth 24

Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"

EndSubSection

EndSection

 

Section "Extensions"

Option "Composite" "Enable"

EndSection