nvidia gforce4 performance

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Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:35:37 -0700


http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=3D6f9ba3c7175ca7c558ac=
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I (unfortunately) purchased a mobo with their nforce2 chipset.  Now=20
(unfortunately), I read this bb daily!

Video Cards, however, seem to have better Linux NVIDIA support than their=
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On Tuesday 07 January 2003 11:15 am, Bill Warner wrote:
> I purchased a Gforce4 ti 4400 about two months ago and its windowing
> performance seems to be horrible.  Dragging windows around s extreamely
> jerky.  Especially wmms.  I am useing the latest nvidia drivers (4191).=
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> I think I have all the AGP stuff setup right as it says it is active in
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log.  3d works awsome 1600x1200x32 in rtcw and q3.=20
> It is just a windows performance thing.  I have been playing around wit=
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> it for a while and can't seem to find anything.
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> Anyone else with this card have similar problems, or know how to fix
> this issue?
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> here are the relivvent parts of the XFree86.0.log:
> (II) LoadModule: "extmod" # and all the stuff it does succeeded
> --
> (II) LoadModule: "glx" # succeeded
> --
> (II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver  1.0-4191  Mon Dec  9 11:51:41 PST 2002
> (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
> (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
> (II) Module nvidia: vendor=3D"NVIDIA Corporation"
>         compiled for 4.0.2, module version =3D 1.0.4191
>         Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
> --
> (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
> (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
>         [0] -1 0        0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
>         [1] -1 0        0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
>         [2] -1 0        0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
>         [3] -1 0        0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
>         [4] -1 0        0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
>         [5] -1 0        0xfebdff80 - 0xfebdffff (0x80) MX[B]
>         [6] -1 0        0xfebe0000 - 0xfebfffff (0x20000) MX[B]
>         [7] -1 0        0xe0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x10000000) MX[B]
>         [8] -1 0        0xfeae0000 - 0xfeafffff (0x20000) MX[B](B)
>         [9] -1 0        0xdc880000 - 0xdc8fffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
>         [10] -1 0       0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
>         [11] -1 0       0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
>         [12] -1 0       0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
>         [13] -1 0       0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
>         [17] -1 0       0x0000efe4 - 0x0000efe7 (0x4) IX[B]
>         [18] -1 0       0x0000eff0 - 0x0000eff7 (0x8) IX[B]
>         [19] -1 0       0x0000e400 - 0x0000e4ff (0x100) IX[B]
>         [20] -1 0       0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efe3 (0x4) IX[B]
>         [21] -1 0       0x0000efa8 - 0x0000efaf (0x8) IX[B]
>         [22] -1 0       0x0000ef80 - 0x0000ef9f (0x20) IX[B]
>         [23] -1 0       0x0000ffa0 - 0x0000ffaf (0x10) IX[B]
> (II) resource ranges after probing:
>         [0] -1 0        0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
>         [1] -1 0        0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
>         [2] -1 0        0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
>         [3] -1 0        0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
>         [4] -1 0        0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
>         [5] -1 0        0xfebdff80 - 0xfebdffff (0x80) MX[B]
>         [6] -1 0        0xfebe0000 - 0xfebfffff (0x20000) MX[B]
>         [7] -1 0        0xe0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x10000000) MX[B]
>         [8] -1 0        0xfeae0000 - 0xfeafffff (0x20000) MX[B](B)
>         [9] -1 0        0xdc880000 - 0xdc8fffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
>         [10] -1 0       0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
>         [11] -1 0       0xfd000000 - 0xfdffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
>         [12] 0 0        0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B]
>         [12] 0 0        0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B]
>         [13] 0 0        0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B]
>         [14] 0 0        0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B]
>         [15] -1 0       0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
>         [16] -1 0       0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
>         [17] -1 0       0x0000ef00 - 0x0000ef3f (0x40) IX[B]
>         [18] -1 0       0x0000ec00 - 0x0000ec7f (0x80) IX[B]
>         [19] -1 0       0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
>         [20] -1 0       0x0000efe4 - 0x0000efe7 (0x4) IX[B]
>         [21] -1 0       0x0000eff0 - 0x0000eff7 (0x8) IX[B]
>         [22] -1 0       0x0000e400 - 0x0000e4ff (0x100) IX[B]
>         [23] -1 0       0x0000efe0 - 0x0000efe3 (0x4) IX[B]
>         [24] -1 0       0x0000efa8 - 0x0000efaf (0x8) IX[B]
>         [25] -1 0       0x0000ef80 - 0x0000ef9f (0x20) IX[B]
>         [26] -1 0       0x0000ffa0 - 0x0000ffaf (0x10) IX[B]
>         [27] 0 0        0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B]
>         [28] 0 0        0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B]
> (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> (II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
> (II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
> --
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a
> (II) Module vgahw: vendor=3D"The XFree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.2.1.1, module version =3D 0.1.0
>         ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> (=3D=3D) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
> (=3D=3D) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (=3D=3D) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD0000000
> (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xFD000000
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce4 Ti 4400
> (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kBytes
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Detected TV Encoder: Brooktree 871
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at  8 bpp: 350 MHz
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 350 MHz
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Display 0: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 350 MHz
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> Thanks.
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> Bill Warner <wwarner@direct-alliance.com>
> Direct Alliance
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