Re: nvidia too slow on W1100z

From: Neal A. Lucier (nlucier_at_math.purdue.edu)
Date: 06/02/05 

Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:52:50 -0500

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
> |hg2005n@rd.isc.tohoku.ac.jp writes in comp.unix.solaris:
> ||I've just bought a W1100z equipped with NVIDIA Quadro NVS280
> ||with Solaris 9 pre-installed. Soon after I finished the initial setup,
> ||I found the graphics is extremely slow. xengine shows only 530rpm!
> ||
> ||I've installed Solaris 10 x86 3/05. But, no speed improvement can be seen.
> ||Linux with nvidia driver is about 36 times faster on the
> ||same machine. (nv driver was also very slow under Linux.
> ||I've had the same experience on another Opteron system.)
> |
> |Solaris 9 & 10 currently only ship with the "nv" open source driver,
> |same as the one you find so slow under Linux. Sun & nVidia are working
> |to bring the same much faster "nvidia" closed source driver & OpenGL
> |stack to Solaris soon. (We're testing it inside Sun right now.)
>
> And now you too can have it for Solaris 10:
> http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
>

Just nit picking...

Shouldn't it show up under the TNT2/GeForce downloads as well. I
understand that Sun only resells the Quadro cards, but in terms on John
Q. Public who is trying Solaris 10 on his Dell box, it might be nice for
him to know that it works with his GeForce 4 MX.

And as far as I can tell, the Linux driver is the same for Quadro and
TNT2/GeForce.

Neal

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