[luau] Re: Dual Processors & Linux

[Derrick]

I think the latest Nvidia (53.28) package may be buggy.  I was running
the 44.96 drivers in Suse 8.2 with no problems at all.  I installed 9.0
on the same computer in a different drive (I have a removable bay that I
use) and found the 53.28 drivers to be quite slow and ineffective.  I am
thinking of uninstalling the 53.28 drivers and installing the 44.96
drivers in 9.0 and see if that makes a difference.  

There is supposed to be a new release of the 53.28 drivers in the next
few weeks that will address some minor issues, but if the 44.96 drivers
work in 9.0, I just may stick with those. 

Derrick
  
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 12:00, luau-request at videl.ics.hawaii.edu wrote:

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>    1. Dual Processors & Linux (Rodney Kanno)
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> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 08:05:28 -1000
> From: Rodney Kanno <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
> To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> Subject: [luau] Dual Processors & Linux
> Reply-To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
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> Morning Everyone,
> 
> I have a dual processor computer, but I am getting the impression that 
> Linux is using only one processor. I am running SUSE 9.0, with the 
> 2.4.21-166-smp4G kernel. Doing a cat /proc/cpuinfo shows that Linux is 
> detecting 2 cpu's. However, when I try to run video, the video is very 
> choppy and pretty much un-watchable. Ksim also shows only one cpu in use 
> (cpu0), but displays cpu0 and cpu1. This system was giving me problems 
> before where for some reason, the BIOS would detect only 1 processor. 
> When this occured, video playback was fixed. Could the BIOS alsobe 
> causing Linux to use only one processor (but detect two) as well? Or is 
> there a setting somewhere in Linux to make use of both? I can dual boot 
> to windows, and windows shows both processors in use from task manager. 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Rodney
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> Computer specs:
> Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW
> Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200
> RAM: 1024 MB
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