I have a dell dimension 2400 which comes with the 845g chipset and onboard graphics.. .Well the onboard graphics I decided weren't enough for me so I cracked open the case and looked at the mobo... Nice NO AGP SLOTS (high pitched scream).. I bought a BFG OC'ed 256mb Geforce5500 FX PCI card.

Here lies my problem,
my fps is crap when I run glxgears 2600-2900fps... I'm wondering whether or not Linux is using both the cards causing slow performance and slop fps on my machine..

Heres my lsmod results:

usbhid 44544 0
intel_agp 20828 1
nvidia 4522484 12
agpgart 29032 2 intel_agp,nvidia
i2c_core 17360 1 nvidia
ehci_hcd 29160 0
uhci_hcd 29168 0
usbcore 108476 5 usbmouse,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

and heres my lspci:

[root@152-58 bdd86]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Control
ler/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) U SB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) U SB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) U SB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Co ntroller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Br idge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Cont roller (rev 01)
01:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X
01:04.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device con troller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500] (re v a1)
01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)


It's show intel_agp... I tried to disable the onboard graphics through BIOS but the only options for it are On and Auto... I have it on Auto...


So my question is, How do I get linux from even knowing the onboard graphics chip is there. Your help is very much appreciated!!

Thanks
RoCco

First, I'm impressed by that fps, wow, I'm lucky to get 100 fps, but then again I've got a Savage ProTwister KN199.

Second, try taking the intel agp controller out of your kernel, as well as, adding the BusID line to your xorg.conf (man xorg.conf for details).

Hope this helps,

Alunduil

2600-2900fps sounds about right for a 5500FX, sorry champ. glxgears however is a crappy benchmark, try globs or just try a game to see how it stacks up.