3D working but slow: AGP-Status disabled

[ColonelOops]

I have two machines, one Duron 1600 with a Geforce 4 MX and another one with an AMD64 2GHz and a Geforce 6200, both Kubuntu Edgy and 1.0.9629.

The machine with the GF4 shows about 1300 fps with glxgears, the GF6 only 1100. That can't be right, right?

I noticed that AGP seems to be disabled on the GF6 machine:

# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status:          Disabled

AGP initialization failed, please check the ouput
of the 'dmesg' command and/or your system log file
for additional information on this problem.

But it should be possible to enable it:

# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0xff000e1b:0x00000000

The GF4 machine shows this:

# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status:          Enabled
Driver:          AGPGART
AGP Rate:        8x
Fast Writes:     Disabled
SBA:             Enabled

and:

# dmesg | grep -i agp
[17179590.820000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[17179590.832000] agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset
[17179590.840000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
[17179612.660000] agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[17179612.660000] agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
[17179612.660000] agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode

I think that my chipset is not recognized on the GF6 machine:

# dmesg | grep -i agp
[17179587.496000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones

Otherwise it should say something like: "agpgart: Detected VIA KT800 chipset", right?

I know that glxgears is not a proper benchmark, but the GF4 machine feels faster than the GF6 one playing UT2004.

Can anyone help me on this?

Cheers,
C.

[energyman76b]

well, your kernel does not have the necessary drivers.

Try an updated kernel for your distribution, go to their forums or open a bug about it.

[ColonelOops]

It's the Kubuntu Edgy default kernel, there is no updated one

[energyman76b]

does it work, if you try to modprobe via-agp before starting X?
Or kill X, remove nvidia.ko, try modprobe via-agp and start X again?

[ColonelOops]

No, that doesn't change anything.

I did a fresh edgy install on another harddrive, installed the latest Nvidia binary driver. Now I have AGP enabled (8x) and glxgears gives me about 1700 fps.

Is that OK? Still seems not very much to me compared to 1300 with a GF4.
Can anyone confirm this?
Is the Asus N6200 that slow?
I read about people posting scores around 5000 with a 6800 is that one that much faster or do I still have a problem?

Does anyone have a link to a page where all GF-cards are compared?
Because you can obviously not judge them by their numbers.

[energyman76b]

don't read to much into glxgears. It can only show you, if direct rendiring is working. Nothing else. Its fps are mostly dependent on the CPU, the X version, the windowmanager used...

type glxinfo and look for this:
direct rendering: Yes

and yes, the 6200 is slow.

[sumadartson]

The card's slow, but that slow is slower than the card is.

BTW, I have the exact same problem. No clue how to solve it.