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Originally posted by sneak pIII 450 192 mb ram GForce MX400 64 mb
Fast Writes: not supported
SBA: not supported
AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x
Driver: NVIDIA (?)
AGP RATE: 2X
The Driver certainly doesn't seem right. It looks like you are using the stock driver. It can be what you have, NvAGP (sp?) or AGPART. Try installing Yanc linked from above in one of my posts. The main screen shows option 1 for AGP, the NvAGP.
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do you think my mobo is a little outdated to support fastwrites (see above post for model)? the /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge file seems to say so. maybe i dont have a module?
I found some _low_ level teaks in the DRI user guide (here) ....
Quote:
9.1 Bus Mastering
DMA-based DRI drivers (that's most DRI drivers) cannot function unless bus mastering is enabled for your graphics card. By default, some systems don't having bus mastering on. You should enable it in your BIOS.
Alternately, you can check the status of bus mastering and change the setting from within Linux. There may be similar procedures for other operating systems.
Run lspci (as root) and find the information describing your graphics adapter. For example:
The bus, device, and function number comprise the device id, which is conventionally written in the form bus:dev.func, or in this case 01:00.0.
Use the setpci command to examine bit two of register 4 for your graphics card. This will indicate whether or not bus mastering is enabled.
setpci -s 01:00.0 4.w
A hexadecimal value will be printed. Convert the least significant digit to binary. For example, if you see 3, that's 0011 in binary (bit two is 0). If you see 7, that's 0111 in binary (bit two is 1). In the first example, bus mastering is disabled. It's enabled in the second example.
The following shell script will enabled bus mastering for your graphics card and host bridge. Run it as root.
#!/bin/bash
dev=01:00.0 # change as appropriate
echo Enabling bus mastering on device $dev
setpci -s $dev 4.w=$(printf %x $((0x$(setpci -s $dev 4.w)|4)))
dev=00:00.0
echo Enabling bus mastering on host bridge $dev
setpci -s $dev 4.w=$(printf %x $((0x$(setpci -s $dev 4.w)|4)))
You can check if this worked by running the first setpci command again.
Is slackware a good gaming distro? I LOVE The damn thing to death, but (dont say gentoo) what other distro would be better suited for gaming?
AND...
Im going to try again with 2.6.3, for the preemptive stuff, but I was wondering, if I install this kernel, but have both kernel isntalled (2 entrys in lilo.conf two module directories) would it be screwed up? What would be the best way to have both kernels on the system, one for testing 2.6 the other (2.4.22) for my fallback system to use while I really get 2.6 setup.
Originally posted by ftgow Is slackware a good gaming distro? I LOVE The damn thing to death, but (dont say gentoo) what other distro would be better suited for gaming?
AND...
Im going to try again with 2.6.3, for the preemptive stuff, but I was wondering, if I install this kernel, but have both kernel isntalled (2 entrys in lilo.conf two module directories) would it be screwed up? What would be the best way to have both kernels on the system, one for testing 2.6 the other (2.4.22) for my fallback system to use while I really get 2.6 setup.
Thanks.
Not at all, you may have as many kernels as you want (as long as they can load ) installed in your system. The kernel is independant of the rest of the system (except maybe for GlibC, and some other libraries, of course), but you will have no problem (I've had up until 7 concurrent kernels installed!, not that I recommend that much, but I was testing...)
Excellent. But what about the /usr/src/linux symlink. Should I change it to the new source or keep it at the default until im sure my new 2.6 kernel is bitchin?
Is it even important?
Originally posted by ftgow Excellent. But what about the /usr/src/linux symlink. Should I change it to the new source or keep it at the default until im sure my new 2.6 kernel is bitchin?
Is it even important?
Some programs when you are bulding them will seek for that symlink, however in my experience they seek first for the /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build symlink (created when you install the modules).
asus a7n8xdeluxe
athlon xp 1600
512 pc2700
geforce fx 5200
3500 frames in glxgears SBA and FASTWRITE supported, and set in my module options, yet only SBA gets actually enabled. As I understand thats the nvidia driver covering its own ass. Damn. Im also running gnome 2.4 with minmal 'theming'. I tried it with TVM and got about 200 more frames.
IF slackware is as fast as hell with everything else, is it fast for games? I should probably stop asking that question and drop in 8.0 of redhat. ANYWAYS...
Ill post those glxgear stats asap.
great. I was doing quite well getting 2.6 under wraps before, but I was under the assumption(s) that because 2.6 was all scrweed up, my 2.4 setup would be as well. Yet that was when I hadnt touched the 2.4 confiurations before upgrading to 2.6, setting up inittab, and installting nvidia. So now that i have all that I feel pretty confident to do a dual kernel setup and really work with that and get to try out preemption.
But damn, what I wouldnt give or kill for 7k in glxgears. or that guy who had 12k.
And as a treat to all linux gamers, considering they are the most beaten and raped computing people of all, but whom of which will eventually trounce all those damn windows kiddies and their counter strike bullshit, I have this link.
From personal experience, I found Gentoo to be the fastest gaming Linux machine I built (while running 2.4.x kernels). However I did not install in it some complicated games like UT2003/04, or even NWN. BUT Q3 and UT classic felt quite fast (alas they are in my current setup with Fedora Core 1 and kernel 2.6.3).
Originally posted by ftgow And as a treat to all linux gamers, considering they are the most beaten and raped computing people of all, but whom of which will eventually trounce all those damn windows kiddies and their counter strike bullshit, I have this link.
I had saw an ad for a free magazine.
Titled "Maximum LInux" inside of some other computing magzine I had in my hand. I never knew about linux before that.
I orderd the magazine. From their I was hooked. I bought a book on redhat. Bought "The joy Of Linux" and am now a Linux addict and LInux asshole to the windows dorks. (Take the good with the bad I quess)
So little Tux with the not so little firearm has been with me for some time. Hell god knows that image (in a penquin computing add on the back cover) subconisouly made me a linux freak. Rocket Launchers have that affect/
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) installed in your system. The kernel is independant of the rest of the system (except maybe for GlibC, and some other libraries, of course), but you will have no problem (I've had up until 7 concurrent kernels installed!, not that I recommend that much, but I was testing...)
