Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-29 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:26:36 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jule Slootbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When I play games the graphics are slow, and I usually have to turn > > down a lot of options, for example, when i play Battle for Wesnoth, > > during the automated se

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Paul Johnson wrote: Sounds like OpenGL or your X server isn't properly set up. The only problem I'm having with the X server is this: Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". I'm not sure what to do about it, since it kind of conflicts with nVidia's driver settings. if anybody has

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jule Slootbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I play games the graphics are slow, and I usually have to turn > down a lot of options, for example, when i play Battle for Wesnoth, > during the automated sequences the

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Jule Slootbeek
I enabled MTRR, and along with that and the other things suggested, i managed to get >500 fps with glxgear, before it was around 200fps. This seems to have helped some stuff, thanks alot! Jule Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:07AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: Maybe the output of

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:07AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > > > >Maybe the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and "dmesg" would help. I don't > >think kernel options would make a huge difference, but you never know, > >so we might as well have a look at .config. > > > >Frank > > > > alright, let

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Wim De Smet wrote: Hi, What is the nice value of X? (check with top) It might cause problems with 2.6 if it's still at -10, you can dpkg-reconfigure it and change it to 0 if it is. You might want to check out other processes and their memory usage too. Lately I had a similar problem and it was ess

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:49:07 -0400, Jule Slootbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Maybe the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and "dmesg" would help. I don't > > think kernel options would make a huge difference, but you never know, > > so we might as well have a look at .config. > > > > Frank

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Maybe the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and "dmesg" would help. I don't think kernel options would make a huge difference, but you never know, so we might as well have a look at .config. Frank alright, let me attach some files..:) Thanks! Jule -- Jule Slootbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thesloot

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:25:12PM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > >>1) video acceleration? I believe the "glxinfo" command should tell you > >>if you have acceleration. > I'm running the drivers i got from the nvidia website, I was not aware > that there were other drivers available for this nvid

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-27 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Frank Gevaerts wrote: Two things that come to my mind: 1) video acceleration? I believe the "glxinfo" command should tell you if you have acceleration. glxinfo is about opengl acceleration. At least battle for wesnoth is pure 2d sdl, so it can't be the whole answer. Are you using the binary-only

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:40:24PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Jule Slootbeek wrote: > > >recently I installed Debian sarge on a P4 2Ghz machine using the new > >debian-installer. After setting up this new machine, which previously > >ran windows XP, I started noticing that many processes were not