Installed NVidia driver - now what?

Alfred · #1 28th February 2005, 10:08 PM

I just installed my NVidia driver using the instructions provided in this article at Fedoranews.org. Everything was successful - although I had to install gcc halfway through - and ended up learning a few archane emacs commands on the way....

However now I don't notice any difference in the display. In Gnome under System Settings | Display | Hardware (system-config-display) it still shows "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)" as the adapter. It said this before I installed the driver. Shouldn't it reflect the actual driver I just installed? My graphics card is a "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8x". Is my newly installed driver being used? How do I know?

marzugal · #2 28th February 2005, 10:14 PM

Hey Alfred try running 'nvidia-settings' in a terminal an see what happens

Alfred · #3 28th February 2005, 10:33 PM

Okay yes, that brings up NVidia X Server settings, so that must mean that everything is working?

marzugal · #4 28th February 2005, 10:45 PM

Try the digital vibrance slider under CRT-0 if things get brighter it works you good also try a tux racer, should run smoth as if the driver was installed properly.

nandowong · #5 28th February 2005, 11:49 PM

try glxgears, you should get in the thousands

Alfred · #6 1st March 2005, 03:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nandowong

try glxgears, you should get in the thousands

Neat utility. Thanks. The folowing is a sample of my results. I have have a 64 MB GForce4 MX 440 with AGP8x.

3706 frames in 5.0 seconds = 741.200 FPS
3676 frames in 5.0 seconds = 735.200 FPS
3674 frames in 5.0 seconds = 734.800 FPS
3133 frames in 5.0 seconds = 626.600 FPS
3453 frames in 5.0 seconds = 690.600 FPS
3711 frames in 5.0 seconds = 742.200 FPS
3693 frames in 5.0 seconds = 738.600 FPS
3361 frames in 5.0 seconds = 672.200 FPS