Rowan Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 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] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 What version of Mandriva are you using? What is the output of cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep -i driver and fglrxinfo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 How much time elapsed between the fan replacement and the poor performance? Maybe the card was not properly re-inserted into the motherboard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Posted May 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Posted May 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Posted May 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 If you want to run glxgears, install the mesa and mesa-demos packages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Posted June 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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