[plug] nvidia drivers slow on etch

[Russ Pitman]

Russ Pitman wrote:
> Innis Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi all
> > Have installed the nvidia drivers on debian etch but they are as slow as
> > has anyone else experenced this.I am using xorg and after much reading
> > got the nvidia splash screen but in glxgears the gears hardly turn infact 
> > it is
> > that slow it does not even register a frame rate. Checking glxinfo direct 
> > rendering
> > =yes
> > All ideas welcome
> > 
> ___________________________________________
> 
> Hi Innis,just for the exercise I have installed Etch from the current
> deb installer,to another machine with a non-nvidia video card.
> 
> Surprisingly glxgears was not installed and apparently is only available in
> unstable.
> 
> Debian does strange things at times:-))-- I'll go switch to unstable to see
> if an upgrade brings glxgears to life.
> 
> CUL.
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Russ.
Ah! Of course the 'purity maintainers' don't include the contrib and
non-free in the distro. How Twee.

Getting the rest now
-- 
Cheers,
Russ.