nvidia drivers worth installing?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 1/24/07, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sorry about that. I have attached the X log file to this e-mail. Please
> note that currently Beryl is disabled. Let me know if you like to see X
> log file with Beryl enabled.
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> Thanks
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> Srikanth
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> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 1/24/07, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I have recently updated nVidia driver (livna rpm x86_64 Kernel Module
> >> 1.0-9746 , Dual Core AMD X2) on FC6 hoping to see some improvement in
> >> performance with Beryl. But, unfortunately i could not find any
> >> improvements in that area. I have been running into the issue where Xorg
> >> would go nuts with CPU when Beryl is running. So, i have disabled the
> >> Beryl. Here is what lspci tells me about my graphics card.
> >>
> >> 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express
> >> Bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> >>
> >> Wondering if the issue is purely related to nVidia's driver (C51 PCI
> >> Express Bridge) or it is the combination of Beryl and nVidia.
> >
> > Is Xorg hitting the CPU immediately, or over time?  Posting your X log
> > would be useful.

Ideally, I'd like to see an X log while the problem is present.
However, are you seeing an actual performance problem, or is it just
that X is using 100% of the CPU while running beryl?  Also, which
version of beryl are you using?

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