Graphics speed problems [solved]

[Rowan]

I hope that this is the correct section to post this so here goes.

A couple of months ago I had my machine given a check over and it was found that my graphics-card cooling fan was dying. This was replaced but now my card speed is very slow - it varies between 4 and 10 fps on glxgears and is jerky in movement.

 

Is there anything that I can check to try to daignose the problem? I under the impression that graphics cards either go or they don't so it is still working but just very slowly. By the way it is a Radeon 9700 Pro and has never given me any trouble until now.

 

Thanks for any advice.

 

 

[moved from Software by Greg2]

[Greg2]

What version of Mandriva are you using? What is the output of

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep -i driver

and

fglrxinfo

[daniewicz]

How much time elapsed between the fan replacement and the poor performance?

 

Maybe the card was not properly re-inserted into the motherboard?

[Rowan]

The output of cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep -i driver is:

[rowan@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep -i driver

Driver "keyboard"

Driver "mouse"

Driver "fglrx"

# === FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ===

Driver "ati"

and fglrxinfo is:

[rowan@localhost ~]$ fglrxinfo

display: :0.0 screen: 0

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.

OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9700 PRO Generic

OpenGL version string: 2.0.6011 (8.28.8)

 

I am running 2006 Powerpack and the problem was noticed as sson as I got it back from the serviceman.

Now that 2009.1 has been released I might look at updating my system - depending upon system requirements.

[Greg2]

That looks more hardware related instead of driver/software related IMHO. What's the output of

fgl_glxgears

at least three lines. Is the new graphics-card fan running?

[Rowan]

glxgears gives me:

[rowan@localhost ~]$ glxgears

38 frames in 5.6 seconds = 6.811 FPS

31 frames in 5.1 seconds = 6.080 FPS

49 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9.776 FPS

49 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9.788 FPS

49 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9.789 FPS

48 frames in 5.1 seconds = 9.447 FPS

19 frames in 5.2 seconds = 3.688 FPS

33 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6.540 FPS

 

I have pulled out the card and checked as far as I can and everything looks ok. The new fan is working. What is strange is that I can play Quake4 in windows perfectly and I am just wondering if it is possible to 'optimise' a graphics card to run better in windows and so bugger up linux?? Any thoughts.

[Rowan]

I suspected that the problem was software related because I can still play Quake4 at full speed on windows with no hiccups. I have now upgraded to 2009.1 powerpack and everything appears to be back to normal with full speed graphics. I can´t check with glxgears as it tells me ´command not found´.

 

All problems solved.

[daniewicz]

If you want to run glxgears, install the mesa and mesa-demos packages.

[Greg2]

I can´t check with glxgears as it tells me ´command not found´

If you're using the x11-driver-video-fglrx, as I've noted in my previous post, you can run

fgl_glxgears

[Rowan]

I checked and found that mesa-delos was´t installed so it is in now and my glxgears looks like this:

 

[rowan@localhost ~]$ glxgears

14492 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2898.323 FPS

19859 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3971.718 FPS

19972 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3994.097 FPS

20010 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4001.703 FPS

19961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3992.007 FPS

20045 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4007.815 FPS

19151 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3820.358 FPS

 

Now none of my games will open but that is a different post.

 

Thanks