Very slow (almost none) 3D Acceleration with current Nvidia driver

Hi,
I'm having a problem on my Vostro 1400 with Nvidia M8400GS graphics card. The thing is that I don't have 3D acceleration to run compiz or 3D games (Urban Terror). Well, I can run GLXgears and start up Urban Terror, but the performance in UT is very slow (unplayable) even in the main menu - the sound is laggin etc). Even if I run Xcompmgr, the performance is very bad. I have had this issue almost a year now under Arch and I haven't found any solution to this problem.
Currently I'm running Nvidia driver from the extra repo version 169.12-4.
I also have enabled nvidia-xconfig --composite option to my xorg.conf file.
Here is my xorg.conf file:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "ee"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8400M GS"
Option "NoLogo"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
If you have any idea or comment about my problem, please let me know.
Cheers,
Verner

@ OP
You might wanna try tuning your xorg setup a bit as is described on the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … Fxorg.conf , and just under the section on xorg there is a bit of more info on the nvidia or ati specific stuff.
Is there a reason you are not specifying the default depth portion?
eg:
Section "Screen"
       Identifier "Screen0"
       Device     "Card0"
       Monitor    "Monitor0"
       DefaultDepth 24
Or the modes portion?
eg:
SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     24
               Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
There's also more detailed info on the wiki about xorg http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg and nividia http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
Although, some of those nvidia specific options can lower your fps, I tried some of them and then removed them as they killed my opengl performance in 3d games, only "Option" I added and kept was the NoLogo one.
Hope something there helps, always has for me
wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki mushroom mushroom
Last edited by RabidWolf (2008-06-20 21:23:38)

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