ilia_kr Posted May 27, 2009 Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 (edited) Hi, I have an old NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 graphic card that worked flawlessly on Mandriva 2009. After an update the situation changed a bit: I have now good 3D hardware acceleration but 2D graphics is slow. It takes about 2 seconds to show the icons on a desktop after minimizing a window; desktop selection rectangle doesn't work smooth anymore and window moving isn't smooth either. I use the following driver (installed by Mandriva): vendor: NVIDIA Corporation renderer: GeForce4 Ti 4400/AGP/SSE2 version: 1.5.8 NVIDIA 96.43.11 Any ideas? Edited May 27, 2009 by ilia_kr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 27, 2009 Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 What version of the NVIDIA driver are you using? I know they stopped updating for this card a while back, just can't remember what the last release number was that this card supported now. Incidently, I have this card also just not using it right now :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted May 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 I use the following driver (installed by Mandriva): vendor: NVIDIA Corporation renderer: GeForce4 Ti 4400/AGP/SSE2 version: 1.5.8 NVIDIA 96.43.11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted May 27, 2009 Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 Make sure you have the mesa and mesa-demos packages installed from the official Mandriva repos. Then please post the output of glxinfo | grep -E -i 'rendering|OpenGL|server glx|client glx' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 28, 2009 Report Share Posted May 28, 2009 Doh :D I'd check the NVIDIA website and check exactly which version was the last to support your card. It could well be this one, but I'd do it to be sure. EDIT: Never mind, checked it here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html last version is 1.0-96xx - you have too new a driver which isn't supported on your card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted May 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 Make sure you have the mesa and mesa-demos packages installed from the official Mandriva repos. Then please post the output ofglxinfo | grep -E -i 'rendering|OpenGL|server glx|client glx' [ilia@mdv ~]$ glxinfo | grep -E -i 'rendering|OpenGL|server glx|client glx' direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation server glx version string: 1.4 server glx extensions: client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation client glx version string: 1.4 client glx extensions: OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL renderer string: GeForce4 Ti 4400/AGP/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 1.5.8 NVIDIA 96.43.11 OpenGL extensions: [ilia@mdv ~]$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted May 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 So, what can i do to fix the problem (make my card work like it used prior to upgrade) except using free drivers (that do not support hardware acceleration) or getting a new card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 I used a GeForce4 card very recently with the 96.43.11 driver without problem on Mandriva 2008.1. I think there is more going on here than simply the wrong video driver. However, you could always try using a older driver from the NVidia website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 I agree with daniewicz, I don't believe that this is only a driver problem. The output you've posted looks ok. Would you please post (at least three lines) the output of glxgears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted May 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 (edited) I agree with daniewicz, I don't believe that this is only a driver problem. The output you've posted looks ok. Would you please post (at least three lines) the output ofglxgears [ilia@mdv ~]$ glxgears 20320 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4063.656 FPS 19445 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3888.943 FPS 20802 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4160.382 FPS 12399 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2479.588 FPS looks fine to me... Edited May 29, 2009 by ilia_kr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 Any errors or problems reported in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 It's not your graphics card or the driver. Are you using compiz or another 3D desktop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted May 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 It's not your graphics card or the driver. Are you using compiz or another 3D desktop? no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted May 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 Any errors or problems reported in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? no, only those considering my older kernel that i do not use anymore So, what should i do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Can you copy a few lines of Xorg.0.log which show where the old kernel is mentioned and post here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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