I'm not sure Nvidia's drivers work at 24bpp, so you might want to try running at 16bpp. Also, you did remember to change the driver in your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if that file exists on your system) file to be "nvidia" rather than "nv", right?
Gerry On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > I've got a Diamond Viper770 video card, which has a Nvidia TNT chip on it. > Using the standard XFree86 4 nv driver, 3D performance is, well, poor. So > I decided to install the driver from NVidia. I downloaded and installed > the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages. With those, I built the > nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-2.2.18 (yes, I'm using kernel 2.2.18) > packages and installed those, too. Then I reconfigured the X server to use > the new nvidia driver. But 3D performance is still as poor as it was > before. Have I done something wrong and if so, what? > > BTW, I have tested the 3D performance by running the GLText demo from > xscreensaver. With a resolution of 1600x1280 at 24bpp, I get about 2 fps. > > Remco > -- > qn-195-66-31-144: 23:20:02 up 3 days, 22:44, 9 users, load average: 1.58, > 2.05, 1.64 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
