[a7n8x] AGP/OpenGL DISTRESS HELP!

azote · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 415

yes I just install the gaming-sources Kernel...

and Now I can Play with out having to boot with the acpi=off

but my FPS are ~1500... is better than ~600

I can still boot with no acpi and get ~3000 but without sound or internet...

... conclusion!!

this gaming kernel worked for me!!

on my Toshiba 5205-s703 with a Gforce4 Nvidia 460 (64mb)
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decker in flux · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 60 Location: in flux

i tried every kernel, and they offered no help... but i did fix the problem... turns out that the voltage on my 5v rail was fluctuating alot and dropping pretty low, i adjusted some of my power settings and everything is ... decent now.

all things aside, i did manage to raise my fps in glxgears overall from ~1700fps to ~3600fps now, which is quite satisfactory for me -- and now i dont get lag spikes in the frame rates.

@taskara -- if you need any help smoothing things out i can send you the important aspects of my cfg files
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taskara · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 6:43 am Post subject:

thanks man.. I decided to re-build me system today, and I can't even emerge system!

it emerges glib 2.2.1, but system wants 1.2.1 - and pam fails..

it's so annoying..

anyway.. when and if I get it all up and running, I'll let you know.

Are you using xfree 4.3 ? and what nvidia drivers? what nvidia net driver?

ta!
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taskara · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:42 am Post subject:

I was told that the gaming-sources had an nforce2 driver.

I couldn't find anything in the kernel config, but I assumed it might be in a patch or something.

on boot I get a message saying:

azote · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 415

Just do a emerge nvidia-kernel again
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decker in flux · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 60 Location: in flux

taskara:

I have used gaming sources, but they REALLY dont like either ACPI or APIC ( cant remeber which it was ) and overall they underperformed compared to the aa-sources ( i run 2.4.21-pre4-aa3 ). I have tried nearly every kernel in the portage tree ( just wolk, acpi, and lolo -- of the ones which are actual distinct *versions* ), including the masked ones ... if you feel more comfortable with "stable" ck/gaming was the best, of the "newer" ( 2.4.21 ) kernels pre4-aa3 was the best ( dont touch ac-sources ! ), and i suggest when the ebuild is updated to include the new HT scheduler, to grab 2.5.64bk ( or higher ).

I currently use the 4191 kernel/glx ( ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge nvidia-glx ..... that will grab it for you in one step ) Also my modules.d looks like:

taskara · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:07 pm Post subject:

yeah.. all should be good.. I just had trouble getting X to work with xfree 4.3 - the screen showed showed gobbledy gook, and froze the system.

I think I just missed the "amd and nvidia ide" option under the kernel menu

hdparm gives a good score with it off anyway.. but I'll re-compile it in

I usually just use the gentoo-sources (I have been using gentoo since version 1.1a) and have never really looked at other ones.. I might check them out and see which one I like the best!

ta
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SnowDeath · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 64 Location: Florida, USA

I have an Asus A7N8X-DLX, using onboard sound and 3com nic (as I like to rebuild kernels remotely via ssh).
My Specs:
Athlon 1600+
Dual 256 Meg PC2100 sticks
GeForce3 ti200
WD 80 Gig Special Edition EIDE drive (42-44 mb/s with hdparm -t )
gaming-kernel
alsa-driver (intel8x0)
AMD Viper/Nforce2 driver (ATA-66 workaround enabled if it is there)
nvagp (cat /proc/drivers/nvidia/agp/status after you have X loaded to make sure nvagp is loading - in kernel, make sure agpgart is module)

I get about 3800 fps in glx_gears (I can dbl check tonight). WolfET, WineX, AA sound is fine no spikes or anything. I've played ET for 45 minutes straight with no issues other than my sound is a little tinny due to the crappy snd-intel8x0 driver.

Couple suggestions I have for ya:
In your kernel, try disabling SMP, APIC, and ACPI - leave APM in.
Edit your /etc/modules.autoload and comment out your OSS audio driver (i810_audio).
Install alsa driver and autoload snd-intel8x0 in your modules.autoload.

Then reinstall your video driver. (I use the NVIDIA-Linux... installer from Nvidia's site).

Once you have all that done, reboot again (heh, yeah I'm an MCSE, why do you ask?) and then do an lsmod to make sure the OSS sound driver isn't loaded and that the ALSA one is.

taskara · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:27 pm Post subject:

hey, thanks for all that.

I've got it all working now

the only problem is that I've since upgraded to serial ata hdd's and am using the onboard silicon image 3112 controller.

it's not the best.

I will try to get dma working with my drives tonight, and get them running at udma 66... slow I know. but apparently that's the only stable setting..
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Budro · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 3:47 am Post subject: just in

Hey there,

My numbers are:
zippy X11 # glxgears
12624 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2524.800 FPS
14141 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2828.200 FPS
14019 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2803.800 FPS

# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 1784 MB in 2.00 seconds = 892.00 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 142 MB in 3.02 seconds = 47.02 MB/sec

Here is my hardware setup:
ASUS|V9280TD GF4 Ti4200 8X 128M
AMD|2500/333 ATHLON XP BARTON R
CORSAIR DDRAM 512MBTWINX512-2700
ASUS A7N8X DELUXE
Maxtor 80GIG 8MB cache

But I am still having this problem posted below:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=71254