glxgears SLOW after new kernel and module
 

I looked for this, I must be the only one suffering. I am usually getting 2 -3 thousand FPS from glxgears. Yesterday, there was a new kernel on yum update, and of course, a new kmod-nvidia. This morning glxgears is showing 300, 350 FPS. Sheesh! What can this be?

What does glxinfo say;

WHAT? No direct rendering? This is an nvidia card, always worked fine before. Lookie:
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2

Well, here we go: Yum (perhaps) failed to remove the old kmod-nvidia. When I tried that with rpm it reported multiple packages. SO I used --allpackages to remove it, also --nodeps as the x-srv depends on it. I hate doing that, but desperation, ya know? Yum install kmod-nvidia put it back, but with no change whatsoever. Still a bummer. SO I removed that, downloaded the driver from nvidia page, built it on the box, and Voila!
Now, look:
[ray@raymondjones ~]$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
Also, I am getting about 3500 FPS from glxgears.
SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!

Great, that is one of the reasons once I get everything working I don't even bother with all the constant upgrades. With gentoo you can update sometimes by the hour. The changes may not be from a package like 2.4.1 to 2.4.1r1. I'm just too lazy. I may wait till the next release and back up what I want and just start from scratch. The lazy way out.