Re: Problems with nv driver

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On 11/08/2006 06:37 AM, Jörn Rink wrote:
-- 
Sjoerd Mullender
> Am Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:34:51 +0100
> hat Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@xxxxxxx> (Sjoerd Mullender) folgendes
> geschrieben:
> 
>> I have an nVidia GeForce4 440 Go in my laptop and I use the nv driver
>> on Fedora Core 6, recently upgraded (fresh install) from FC5.
>>
>> With this combination, googleearth is slow as molasses.  On FC5 it was
>> maybe a bit slow, but still perfectly usable, but on FC6 it's totally
>> unusable.  I basically get complete screen redraws one after the other
>> while googleearth is zooming (well, trying to zoom) around.
> 
> Hi,
> i have a geforce 6800gt with fc6 and compiz working with the bta driver
> from livna.
> Also googleearth runs smooth here.
> Here is a short extract from my xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>         BoardName   "nVidia Corporation NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT]"
>         Option      "NvAGP" "1"
>         Option      "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
>         Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
> EndSection
> 
> You have to check the modules:
> 
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "fbdevhw"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "extmod"
> EndSection
> 
> And i have:
> Section "Extensions"
>         Option      "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Since today, compiz and googleearth works with the non-beta driver from
> nvidia, which is released today.
> 
> For testing, if the nvidia driver is active, you have to seee the
> nvidia screen, before the X-Server starts. Also a good measurement is
> glxgears and glxinfo.
> Check with lsmod, if the module nvidia is inserted:
> [root@bauhaus0 ~]# lsmod | grep nvi
> nvidia               4723188  36 
> i2c_core               25537  3 i2c_ec,nvidia,i2c_nforce2
> 
> I wish you luck :)

Unfortunately, the new driver doesn't work for me.  With and without the
above configuration I get a completely black screen.  I'm back to the nv
driver.

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender

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