3D hardware acceleration

[mrsmidt]

hi forum,

i just made three tests with 'glxgears' on my duron1.2/gforce2mx machine:

suse9.0 (installed on hd + nvidia.com module) - 775fps
knoppix3.3 (live-cd) - 200fps
morphix (gamer live-cd) - 1423fps

why doesn't knoppix have nvidia drivers included ?

hows the 3D hw-acceleration on ati cards under knoppix ?

cheers
-andre
ps. i wonder why morphix is double so fast as my installed suse9.0...

[Joe999]

ps. i wonder why morphix is double so fast as my installed suse9.0...

I noticed in a recent update of Morphix a note that preemptive and low latency had been turned off, so it might be that previous releases may have had both enabled to give a speed increase. Just speculation though.

[windos_no_thanks]

I get about 1300 FPS on my box (ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9) with Knoppix 3.3 2003-11-19

[koma]

i get 180 - 200.. im running a 1.2 athlon and a geforce 4 ti4200 - knoppix 3.3 live cd

[Stephen]

With the 4496 drivers on my Duron 800 with TNT2 I get about 450-500 with Knoppix 3.3 and my Athlon 1.333 Debian SID with GeForce4 440 I get about 1650-1700. Tried the new 5328 drivers on the Duron and got about 75-85. Oh and to answer the question Klaus will not put the drivers on the disk becasue of the liscense.

[A. Jorge Garcia]

Yup, but there's a script out there by fabianx to install nvidia drivers on the fly if you have an nvidia accelerated graphics card (whether you're running off the CD or the HDD).

BTW, how do I measure my fps rate? I have the nvidia drivers on my HDD on a VANTA graphics card.

TIA,

[windos_no_thanks]

BTW, how do I measure my fps rate? I have the nvidia drivers on my HDD on a VANTA graphics card.

What we are talking about is the frame rate when running a test program called glxgears (/usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears)

[A. Jorge Garcia]

Oh, OK, I thought you could measure the frame rate of any graphics intensive application somehow.

BTW, I'm getting about 1800 fps on my Dell Dimension 4100 with Vanta graphics card, PIII 866 Mhz, 128MB RAM. What's strange is that is fluxuated between 500 and 700 for a while. Then I switched to Konqueror to write this and it flew up to between 1700 and 1900. Why is that?

EDIT: In fact, I left it running for about an hour and got rates closer and closer to nearly 2000 fps.

Regards,

[windos_no_thanks]

BTW, I'm getting about 1800 fps on my Dell Dimension 4100 with Vanta graphics card, PIII 866 Mhz, 128MB RAM. What's strange is that is fluxuated between 500 and 700 for a while. Then I switched to Konqueror to write this and it flew up to between 1700 and 1900. Why is that?


I guess whatever you were using before Konqueror was doing a lot of drawing on the screen. Some web sites with lots of animations perhaps ?

[A. Jorge Garcia]

I guess whatever you were using before Konqueror was doing a lot of drawing on the screen. Some web sites with lots of animations perhaps?


Nope, just a shell and the gears.

OOPS, I take it back. When I run glxgears all by itself I get around 600 fps. When I switch apps to like Konqueror, I get nearly 2000 fps but thats with the gears animation in the background (ie: not visible as the Konqueror window is covering it). BTW, thats on my Dell which is running from an hdd installation using knoppix-installer as knoppix (2003.0924 ISO) plus the nvidia install script.

Regards,

[koma]

where can i find this nvidia installer script? im still pretty fresh with linux so the easier the better!

Cheers

[A. Jorge Garcia]

For the nvidia script see:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4016

Good Luck!

[koma]

I've tried running the script and it was having trouble downloading the installer etc.. when surfing to the url it was looking for the files were no longer there.. so i turned to doing it manually..

I've managed to I think install the drivers.. when i first complied them.. changed my xf84config and then rebooted into kde i was able to run glxgears and get about 5000 fps.. but my screen res had changed to 640x480.. i changed my res back and rebooted my box.. im now trying to run glx gears and getting this error..

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

Any ideas what this could be? im gonna have a good goole around i'll post the answer here if i find it.. but if anyone has any quick fire answer it would be much appreciated :)

Thanks in advance..

[EmDee]

I really doubt that glxgears is an adequate benchmark program; frame rate largely differs depending on window size and it increases a lot when hidden behind xmms or so. Sure, you can at least tell whether an system has got accelarated drivers or it is just slow as shiznit for whatever reason (drivers or hardware). And I get 3200 with SuSE 9.0, Athlon 1.4, GeForce2 ti and nvidia drivers, not the latest version, came with SuSe online update. BTW, I get 12000 when in background and 450 in fullsceen mode 1024x768...

just my 2 Cents