[clue-tech] How to verify hardware acceleration

[Collins Richey]

On 5/14/07, David Guntner <davidg at akamail.net> wrote:
> I'm running Mandriva Linux 2007.0, and have a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
> installed.  I'm using the driver that you download from NVIDIA's
> website, and it's installed properly (that I can verify from the NVIDIA
> logo splash page as X starts up).  When I run glxgears, I only see
> about high 5200's to low 5300's for the FPS rate.  I'm not convinced
> that hardware acceleration is taking place with my setup.
>
> Does anyone know if there's a way to verify if hardware acceleration is
> taking place, and if it isn't, how to go about enabling it?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>

Since I only get about 2088 FPS from my GeForce 6100, I would say
you're doing just fine.

I presume that the "RENDER" line in this excerpt from
/var/log/Xorg.0.log means that acceleration is taking place.

(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 6100 at PCI:0:5:0 (GPU-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.51.22.26.00
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU

HTH,

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Collins Richey
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