6600GT TDH Low Peformance ...

[Iksaif]

Hi,

I get a LeadTek 6600GT TDH (AGP) and low performance :
~4200 FPS with glxgears (3500 with a 9600 Pro !)
~30 FPS with doom3, Medium Quality, 1280*1024

Strange visual bugs on FarCry and bad perf (Windows).


My hardware :
AMD64 3200+ Core Venice
2*512 PC3200 Corsair Cas 2
ABIT AV8
Antec SmartPower 2.0 400W

System :
Debian 32bit
Gentoo 64bit
Windows 32bit (only tested with farcry and Trackmania)

I Tried to use another Power Supply only for the card, to unplug DVD and DVDRw to plug only the card, etc ..

I'm using last drivers.

Some infos:

root@xfpc:/proc/driver/nvidia# cat registry
VideoMemoryTypeOverride: 1
EnableVia4x: 0
EnableALiAGP: 0
NvAGP: 3
ReqAGPRate: 15
EnableAGPSBA: 0
EnableAGPFW: 0
SoftEDIDs: 1
Mobile: 4294967295
ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
FlatPanelMode: 0
DevicesConnected: 0
VideoEnhancement: 0
RmLogonRC: 1
VbiosFromROM: 0
ModifyDeviceFiles: 1
DeviceFileUID: 0
DeviceFileGID: 0
DeviceFileMode: 438
RemapLimit: 0
UseCPA: 4294967295
DetectPrimaryVga: 0

root@xfpc:/proc/driver/nvidia# cat version
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-8178  Wed Dec 14 16:22:51 PST 2005
GCC version:  version gcc 4.0.3 20060104 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-6)

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

root@xfpc:/proc/driver/nvidia/agp# cat host-bridge
Host Bridge:     PCI device 1106:0282
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0x1f000a1b:0x00000000

root@xfpc:/proc/driver/nvidia/agp# cat 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

root@xfpc:/proc/driver/nvidia/cards# cat 0
Model:           GeForce 6600 GT
IRQ:             19
Video BIOS:      05.43.02.69.68
Card Type:       AGP

dmesg
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module  1.0-8178  Wed Dec 14 16:22:51 PST 2005

Any Idea ?

[zander]

root@xfpc:/proc/driver/nvidia/agp# cat 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

Lack of AGP support likely explains your performance problems. Please generate and attach an nvidia-bug-report.log file.

[Iksaif]

I tried with :
nvagp + NvAgp 1 (no dmesg error, but /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status tell me the same thing ...)
agpgart + amd64_agp + NvAgp 2
agpgart + amd64_agp + via_agp + NvAgp 2
agpgart + via_agp + NvAgp 2

and there is always this problem.

Link: http://xf.iksaif.net/nvidia/nvidia-bug-report.log

[zander]

Please use agpgart/amd64_agp (NvAGP doesn't support the Via K8T800Pro), leave the "NvAGP" option unset, start X with the NVIDIA driver and generate an updated bug report file.

[Iksaif]

With agpgart/amd64_agp on Gentoo 64Bit
NvAGP set to 2 ..
http://xf.iksaif.net/nvidia/nvidia-bug-report2.log
I will try without NvAGP after a bios upgrade

[zander]

nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
GSI 19 sharing vector 0xC1 and IRQ 19
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-8178 Wed Dec 14 16:58:07 PST 2005
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected AGP bridge 0
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-8178 Wed Dec 14 16:58:07 PST 2005
NVRM: unable to initialize the Linux AGPGART driver, please
NVRM: verify you configured your kernel to include support
NVRM: for AGPGART (either statically linked, or as a kernel
NVRM: module). Please also make sure you selected support
NVRM: for your AGP chipset.
NVRM:
NVRM: note that as of Linux 2.6 AGPGART, all chipset/vendor
NVRM: drivers are split into independent modules; make sure
NVRM: the correct one is loaded for your chipset.

This shows that AGPGART was loaded and detected a bridge, but that it failed to initialize. This doesn't look like an NVIDIA Linux graphics driver bug, unless it only happened after the NVIDIA kernel module was reloaded.

[Iksaif]

so.. maybe a bios upgrade wil help ^^, but my windows is dead, and awflash don't work on my freedos livecd :'(
I will try to find a floppy

[Iksaif]

bios update, nothing new (a line in mtrr maybe ?) :'(
http://xf.iksaif.net/nvidia/nvidia-bug-report.log

I tried to test with the program in this post :
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/31/88
the result is :

version: 0.101
bridge id: 0x2821106
agp_mode: 0x1f000a1b
aper_base: 0xf0000000
aper_size: 128
pg_total: 208896
pg_system: 208896
pg_used: 0
entry.key : 0
entry.key : 1
Allocated 8 megs of GART memory
MemoryBenchmark: 37 mb/s
MemoryBenchmark: 38 mb/s
MemoryBenchmark: 38 mb/s
Average speed: 37 mb/s
Testing data integrity (1st pass): passed on first pass.
Testing data integrity (2nd pass): passed on second pass.

dmesg | tail 
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: testgart tried to set rate=x12. Setting to AGP3 x8 mode.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode

if it can help ...

[Iksaif]

I only needed to recompile the kernel module, sry