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From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nvidia drivers and 2.6.x kernel
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:48:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040122234803.GC18316@widomaker.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400FBE18.8010302@ihateaol.co.uk>

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 @ 12:12 +0000, Kieran said:

> How strange. I run slack 9.1 and 2.6.1, just grabbed the 4496 
> pre-patched file from http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/ and installed it 
> as I would on 2.4. Works a charm.

How's the performance?

I have found the 4496 and 5328 drivers lowered my performance.

5328 is supposed to be faster mip-mapping and faster when running with
vertical blank sync, but I didn't see it myself.  It also caused quite a
few sound artifacts from my Live! sound card.

Anyone done a driver-by-driver benchmark?

I got tired of it, but here's the performance order on my system from
fastest to slowest:

4620
3xxx (last stable 3xxx driver)
4496
5328

Mostly what I look for are not benchmark numbers, but notable hesitation
in programs and interactive response, and side effects like bad sound
artifacts.




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-23  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-21 23:04 Nvidia drivers and 2.6.x kernel Christian Unger
     [not found] ` <400FB4AA.8000109@yahoo.com.br>
2004-01-22 11:52   ` Christian Unger
2004-01-22 12:12     ` Kieran
2004-01-22 22:42       ` Christian Unger
     [not found]         ` <401052C6.7040500@ihateaol.co.uk>
2004-01-25 23:24           ` Christian Unger
2004-01-27 22:49             ` Charles Shannon Hendrix
2004-01-31  3:41               ` nVidia driver uses far less memory now, was " Charles Shannon Hendrix
2004-01-22 23:48       ` Charles Shannon Hendrix [this message]
2004-01-23  1:59         ` pci_alloc_consistent() Leonid Grossman
2004-01-23  8:50           ` pci_alloc_consistent() Jes Sorensen
2004-01-23 14:37             ` pci_alloc_consistent() Leonid Grossman
2004-01-23 18:11               ` pci_alloc_consistent() Alex Williamson
2004-01-22 23:40     ` Nvidia drivers and 2.6.x kernel Charles Shannon Hendrix
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-21 23:12 Christian Unger
2004-01-21 23:19 ` Tomasz Torcz
2004-01-21 23:28   ` Christian Unger
2004-01-22  8:38     ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-01-21 23:28 ` Diego Calleja
2004-01-21 23:44 ` Paul Misner
2004-01-22  0:05   ` Christian Unger
2004-01-22  0:24     ` Paul Misner
2004-01-22  0:38       ` Rob Couto
2004-01-22 19:19       ` Josh McKinney
2004-01-22 18:15 Bob Gill

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