Testing NVIDIA card performance under Madrake 9.2

frtu · 11-26-2003, 04:47 PM

Hi all,

At last I have my NVIDIA card up and running (Mandrake 9.2 distro, without the kernel sources, with the LG drive flash). Couldn't have made it without the postings here.

Since it is still a bit slow I have been looking around and keep finding postings of people measuring frame rates with "gears" or "glxgears". All I get when running these programs is a bunch of turning wheels in a window.

Question (yes i am a newbe): how can I get "gears" to show me frame rates ???

thnks frnks

Tinkster · 11-26-2003, 04:55 PM

Start it from a terminal :}

man glxgears
is good reading, too.

Cheers,
Tink

dalek · 11-26-2003, 08:51 PM

Good way to test that CPU heatsink too. Makes it run at 100% till you hit ctrl c.

Later

frtu · 11-27-2003, 02:02 PM

Thanks,

Sometimes things turn out to be simple. I installed the manpages as well.

Getting 150 FPS at full screen, CPU fan giving a steady hum in the background.

Thanks again!!!

Tinkster · 11-27-2003, 04:09 PM

Pleasure :}

Enjoy your system! And getting the
man pages was a very wise decision,
they are THE source of information,
really.

Cheers,
Tink