OpenGL running real slowly (glxgears <= 10 fps)

[ThinkTiM]

Hi all,

I'm using Gentoo and have always had no problems getting my nvidia card running smoothly, but sometime recently my OpenGL performance has died. glxgears reports less than 10 frames-per-second.

Anyone have any ideas? I'll attach the nvidia-bug-report-sh output.

Thanks!
Paul

[netllama]

1.0-9755 is no longer supported. If this problem persists after installing 100.14.11, please attach the output from glxinfo.

[xbobmx]

ThinkTiM, what is the output of "eselect opengl list"?

Most likely you just need to run "eselect opengl nvidia" if you installed from ebuilds, and/or reinstall the driver if you installed with the official package.

[edit: you'll have better results if you do this as root]

[__entropy__]

Try adding your user to the 'video' group.
Might help since the Gentoo maintainers
changed permissions on /dev/nvidia*
from 666 to 660 recently.

see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183567

[ThinkTiM]

Thanks to everyone so far. Unfortunately I already have myself as a member of "video" and had tried the eselect to no avail.

I upgraded to the latest driver (it's masked in Gentoo's portage) and the OpenGL part now works.

But now my problem is that I absolutely cannot get the resolution to go above 1280x1024 - my LCD's native resolution is 1600x1200. Is there a bug in the new driver?

[netllama]

There are no known bugs which would prevent 1600x1200. See the forum sticky posts.