Update: I uninstalled all associated rpms. Rebooted. Installed and reconfigured. Rebooted and it seems to be working fine for 3d progams now. bg fade and windows are still choppy. CPU still seems to be used excessively but 3d accel is working. Also changed some "typos" in first paragraph.
Summary:
glxinfo and nvidia display settings indicate Direct Rendering is on and working. Everything runs slower than the "nv" driver. ie: glxgears ~800x600 ~700FPS but one core in cpu is pegged at 98%. Fading background is at best choppy. Movement of windows jittery. No 3d programs work properly. In contrast "nv" is actually faster at most of these things that will run. It appears to be 3d accel is not being used even though reported as available. Specs and files follow:
Linux drift 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 12:19:59 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
MemTotal: 2074120 kB
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
cpu cores : 2
Root Window:
Width: 3520
Height: 1200
Depth: 24
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GTS (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device 2280
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 9c00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fb000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidiafb
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686-177.82-1.fc10.4.i686
kmod-nvidia-177.82-1.fc10.4.i686
akmod-nvidia-177.82-1.fc10.4.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-177.82-1.fc10.i386
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-177.82-1.fc10.i386
I have attached glxinfo, xorg.conf files.
I have tried several configurations of xorg.conf. I recently added the AIGLX option and the Composite extension with no changes. I have also attempted a very basic single head setup with the same results.
xorg.conf
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Tue Nov 4 14:08:09 PST 2008
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "HSD HF289H"
HorizSync 24.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8600 GTS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +1600+0, CRT-1: 1600x1200_60 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer,
GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_NV_present_video,
GLX_NV_multisample_coverage
GLX version: 1.3
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer,
GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600 GTS/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 177.82
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
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