From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 17:38:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA19F16A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:38:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from saraswati.hathway.com (saraswati.hathway.com [202.88.156.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1E643D45 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:38:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gauthamglist@gmail.com) Received: from [210.18.149.72] by saraswati.hathway.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 1 (built Aug 19 2002)) with ESMTP id <0I9H008FIVKKX3@saraswati.hathway.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:06:21 +0530 (IST) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:09:06 +0530 From: Gautham Ganapathy In-reply-to: <1104026947l.3992l.1l@BARTON> To: haruko Message-id: <1104341946.670.7.camel@tbird.homeunix.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <1104026947l.3992l.1l@BARTON> cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: glxgears X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:38:21 -0000 On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 07:39, haruko wrote: > On 12/25/04 12:23:09, Peter Harmsen wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD box on a Elitegroup K7S5A mobo with a Asus TI4200 > > AGP > > 8x graphics card and AMD 512 MB sdram XP2000+ CPU.I get 3600 FPS with > > glxgears after i recompiled the kernel without agp and tweaked the > > Nvidia driver source a little.On a Linux box with AMD XP2500+ CPU > > with > > 1024 MB ddr and FX5700 card i only get 3200 FPS with glxgears.Quite > > remarkable to say the least. > > > I don't know about linux/verses FreeBSD, but I can tell you about > hardware support. I am not sure about nvidia stuff(core models), but I > can tell you new cards tend not to have support, then bad support at > first. This may not be the case with the nvidia drivers. If that card > is new enough glxgears was running partially or all on the cpu not > graphics hardware. > I have an Athlon 64 3000+ and GeForce FX5700 running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (i386). I get only 2200 fps for glxgears. Anyone else getting similar values. When I start X, I also get a kernele message with the following text, NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. I don't think it is running on s/w, since I am able to play Doom 3 on this system. Regards Gautham