F13 - Nvidia graphic driver - 3D acceleration problems

[Hugh Caley]

  I'd also suggest using kmod or akmod for the nvidia driver.  I did; 
I'm running a nvidia 6200, and running Skype and Wine (but not Wow ;)) 
and I'm getting 800+ fps with glxgears at the default window size.

Hugh

> Message: 18
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:14:45 -0600
> From: Kevin Fenzi<kevin at scrye.com>
> Subject: Re: F13 - Nvidia graphic driver - 3D acceleration problems
> To:users at lists.fedoraproject.org
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> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:40:43 +0200
> melanie78 at gmx.at  wrote:
>
>> >  Hi all!
>> >  
>> >  I installed Fedora 13 x86_64 (Kernel 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64) and
>> >  the nvidia driver 265.35 with the .run file described in this guide:
>> >  
>> >  http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=234595
>> >  
>> >  After the installation the driver and the 3D acceleration worked
>> >  fine. But after 1-2 hours and the installation of Skype and Wine the
>> >  3D acceleration doesn't work correctly anymore. I started World of
>> >  Warcraft but the game was just a freeze frame and every few seconds a
>> >  new frame.
>> >  
>> >  I checked glxgears, but the output is very bad:
>> >  
>> >  68 frames in 6.9 seconds =  9.862 FPS
>> >  64 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12.747 FPS
>> >  
>> >  Unfortunately I have no idea why. I checked the bug report file from
>> >  nvidia, but I can't see any error messages. Enclosed you can find the
>> >  bug report.
>> >  
>> >  Can someone help me to find the error?
> I would suggest removing the '.run' installed driver:
>
> http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/remove-nvidia-installer/
>
> Then, see if the free nouveau driver included with fedora meets your
> needs:
>
> http://fedorasolved.org/Members/dcr226/nouveau-kmods-mesa-dri-exper/
>
> If it doesn't, then finally install the kmod from rpmfusion for the non
> free binary only nvidia driver:
>
> http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-yum-kmod/

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Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator
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