I just put together an amd64 system with the following motherboard:
ASRock 939NF4G-SATA2
http://www.asrock.com/product/product_939NF4G-SATA2.htm
This mobo has an on board NVIDIA GeForce 6100 that uses shared memory.
Here is what the product specs say about the on board video:
- Integrated NV44 graphics DX9.0 VGA
- Pixel Shader 3.0
- Max. shared memory 128MB
The system I replaced had a 64MB Geforce 3 Ti 500 that let me play Doom3
and other OpenGL games just fine.
I was going to get a PCI-e based Nvidia, however I did not because I
thought the on board GeForce 6100 would be at *least* as fast as my
older Gefore 3. So I spent the money I saved from not buying a video
card to upgrade to 2GB of dual channel DDR400.
I am still building my gentoo system now, though I have fluxbox and X up
and running. I am wondering if I messed something up because I am only
getting about 1,700 fps on glxgears. My Gefore 3 Ti 500 would do 3,000+.
glxinfo:
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
Here is the nvidia stuff I have installed:
eix -c nvidia
media-video/nvidia-glx (1.0.8178): NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries
media-video/nvidia-kernel (1.0.8178-r3): Linux kernel module for the
NVIDIA X11 driver
Did I leave anything out that is needed for nvidia on an amd64? Or
should I not expect anything more from the on board NVIDIA GeForce 6100
even though it is running over PCI-e?
Thanks,
Jim
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