[Solved] Another Nvidia and GLX issue

Question

Running glx gears gives me an average of about 11FPS, although the card isn't particularly brilliant (MX-440 if I remember rightly), I used to be able to run the OpenGL screensavers (on Ubuntu, and I'm sure when I first installed Arch) quite comfortably.
Nvidia driver is in the xorg.conf, and is loading (getting the splash screen), glxinfo tells me I am using the nvidia gl libs and direct rendering is enabled:
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
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
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
The only slightly odd thing (to me) is this in the Xorg.0.log:
II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
I'm not sure if 'Backing store disabled' means anything major, and it mentions it is initialising the COMPOSITE extension, which I believe is not exactly Nvidia friendly.
I tried putting Composite disable in an Extensions section in the xorg.conf but it made no difference.
Oh, and the agp module is loaded:
lsmod | grep agp
via_agp 8320 1
agpgart 29904 2 nvidia,via_agp
Any ideas?
Well, it turned out to be an Amarok script which was seriously hogging resources of all things....   :oops:

Answer 1

I do...
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Initializing extension GLX
(**) Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
and then after the keyboard and mouse stuff:
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(II) 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing extension GLX
(II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list!
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
SetClientVersion: 0 8
SetGrabKeysState - disabled
SetGrabKeysState - enabled
(II) 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button
after that it's just some 'SetGrabKeysState' messages, which don't sound like anything to do with it...
It's odd, I've never had an issue getting accelerated GLX going with an Nvidia card before.
Also checking the /dev/nvidia* nodes shows they are all 0666 permissions.