[CentOS] RE: Setting up RAID using mdadm on a proliant DL320 G4

Thu Sep 20 04:01:58 UTC 2007
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 20:33 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby
> > 
> > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:42 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 17:27 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > > > From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> > > > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 16:38 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > > > > > ><snip CentOS hdrs and some lead-in>
> > > <snip>
> > 
> > > Right now, I'm trying to figure out how to get decent graphic
> > > performance on that node. I recently installed the nvidia 
> > driver (tried
> > > to use the Rpmforge rpm, but the graphic card demanded the .96xx
> > > driver). Regardless, my 4.5 AMD 2200XP unit with a Radeon 
> > gets appx. 670
> > > FPS, while the AMD 3200XP with the nvidia (and matching driver from
> > > nvidia's site) gets about 300 FPS. It's the same with the 
> > nv driver. I
> > > cured this on the 4.5 by using frame buffer, dri and some 
> > other things
> > > in the Xorg.conf. I've got to resolve this for the faster system.
> > 
> > BTW, on the slower system, IIRC, the FPS was in the mid 30s, not 300.
> > 
> 
> I believe with the nvidias you can't have compositing and glx at the
> same time unless you add this option:
> 
>         Option      "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
> 
> In your graphics card section. I believe it is the GL off-loading that
> is giving you the premo FPS.

Thanks. I'll give that a try this weekend (I hope). Been doing some long
hours at work and all my recreational time seems to be spent sleeping!

> 
> -Ross
> <snip sig stuff>

--
Bill