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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:50:21 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card
Message-ID:  <45FA13FD.10608@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200703151804.35879.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca>
References:  <80f4f2b20703151037q270e46b7x9c528908b8634cc4@mail.gmail.com> <200703151804.35879.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca>

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Norbert Papke wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:37, Jim Stapleton wrote:
>>  Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower
>> than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers
>> area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200.
>> These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup.
> 
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> [...]
>> Section "Extensions"
>>     Option "Composite" "Enable"
>> EndSection
> 
> Even though the nvidia drivers claim to support OpenGL with the composite 
> extension enabled, my experience has been that it leads to performance 
> similar to what you are describing.  Try disabling composite.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Norbert.

True. Composite still isn't the greatest under the 6.9 branch of Xorg 
(and it wasn't that great under Xorg 7.0 either). It might have improved 
since then though in 7.1/7.2.

-Garrett



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