nvidia woes

From: jayachandran kamaraj (k_jchandran_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: 2 Feb 2004 06:02:38 -0800

Hi all,
My machine configuration is as follows
P4, 1.6GHz, Sony vaio desktop with 512 MB Ram and Nvidia TNT2 Video
Card.
I am running both Redhat 9 and debian woody unstable. I have 2.4.20
kernel for redhat and 2.6.1 kernel for debian.
Till 2.4.20 i was happy because the "nv" driver provided by xfree gave
a performance of 220 fps (with the help of glxgears) and when i
install binary driver from nvidia it will go upto 287 fps.
Even though it looks smaller when i read some mails in which people
claim that they get 1000 fps or something like that, but i was happy
to see some difference in the fps between the xfree driver and
original driver provided by the card manufacturer.
Back to the problem, after i installed 2.6.1 in debian first i had
some problem in installing nvidia binary because it complained about
the modversions.h file and sometime later i found about the patch from
http:://www.minion.de and used them and installed them as per their
instructions, i.e., the debian way of make-kpkg.
Now the nvidia driver gives me just 60 fps with the new kernel and
nvidia binary driver, whereas the xfree driver still gives me 220 fps.
If i go back to rh9 and check, nvidia driver gives 290 fps. FYI i use
current nvidia driver 5336.

thanks

jc