Ok I couldnt try to install the NVIDIA_kernel-2.6.3-7mdk-5336-6mdk.i586.rpm
I couldnt find it on my 10.0 CDs, so I decided to just set
NvAGP in my configuration file
saved it and reboot.. for some reason i went back to edit it again and its not there anymore the line I just added
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"
EndSection

If anyone could get me that file maybe that would help.

what I did is this
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NvAGP" "4"
Option "DPMS"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"
EndSection

saved the file conf, and it didnt keep it. and I still got nothing faster.

If i go check on hardware profile, I got to Videocard
this is what is written there
Vendor: ?NVidia

Bus: ?PCI

Bus identification: ?10de:253:270f:1921

Location on the bus: ?1:5:0

Description: ?NV25 GeForce4 Ti4200

Module: ?Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)

Media class: ?DISPLAY_VGA



and my Chipset i dont know exactly what is it,
I got my motherboard model,
GA-7IXE4
200MHz Socket A CPU
2 Channel Ultra ATA66
if thats any help for you.
anyways im still looking forward on fixing this problem.
thanks for all the help for now

One little correction, on my config file, this is what i have at the moment.
Vendor: ?NVidia

Bus: ?PCI

Bus identification: ?10de:253:270f:1921

Location on the bus: ?1:5:0

Description: ?NV25 GeForce4 Ti4200

Module: ?Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)

Media class: ?DISPLAY_VGA

damn copy/paste.
grr.. sorry this is what I GOT..


Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NvAGP" "4"
Option "DPMS"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"
Option "RenderAccel" "1"
EndSection

Make sure that the changes "take" or else something else even more seveare is amiss.

Change this

Option "NvAGP" "4"

As your board cannot operate that fast.

Try

Option "NvAGP" "1"

to start with.

Also try deleting it altogether if you haven't run X without this entry.

Make the change and just type "X" to see if the changed configuration works.

Press [CTRL][ALT][BACKSPACE] to exit the graphical screen.

Next if it comes up it would be nice to try running X with a single application to test it's responsiveness.

If you are not logged in as root, you also may be experiencing device rights issues...

Ok.. Ive tried with Option "NvAGP" "1"

As root I typed X it ran an Xwin.. pressed CTRL-ALT Backspace
got back to terminal
now typed startx

still no difference at all.
Tried doom, slow as hell.
tried hiding my panel, it hides extremely slow.

and in my Hardware profile i still see this PCI crap

Vendor: ?NVidia

Bus: PCI

Bus identification: ?10de:253:270f:1921

Location on the bus: ?1:5:0

Description: ?NV25 GeForce4 Ti4200

Module: ?Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)

Media class: ?DISPLAY_VGA


Now it seems that mandrake just doesnt like my system.

Are you doing all of this as root btw?

yes.. i was logged in as root while doing this otherwise i cant edit my conf file..

Playing DOOM and functions in Xwindows are two totally different things.

As such it's best to tackle Xwindows performance first then move onto the OpenGL stuff.

It still sounds to me that this is an AGP issue, in that the card is not operating in AGP mode, but rather resorting to the much slower PCI modes.

However even here, things should not be so slow that you can even see the frame block moves, causing such slow redraws.

I know this sounds sorta funny, but are you sure that the card is fully seated in the AGP slot?

I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my shitty Laptop
Celeron 1.2GHz with 256MB of ram
and a basic video card not even nvidia, and it flies!

And yes my video card is in the AGP slot, there is no GeForce 4 PCI,
I really dont know whats going on!!
it should be flying on my machine
I wonder if there's an option to enable perhaps Hardware Acceleration, on my laptop it asked me that question at installation...

Now my computer is a bit faster to work with, with all the mods we done till now, especially when i dont run bittorrent, it goes quite fast, when there's low cpu usage its decent, but still not as smooth as it should be, or as smooth as my lower performance laptop. as soon as i get loads of cpu, then it starts VISUALLY slowing everything. my laptop cpu usage is not even as bad as the one on my desktop. it seems like its loading all the visual thing to my cpu while it should be loading this all onto my videocard. to give the cpu less trouble.

there has to be some kind of patch or fix for that..

Probably not.

The CPU utilization is skyrocketing due to the swapper process which is related to the lack of RAM, or I should say, overuse of RAM by KDE.

Your only recourse is a "lighter" desktop system such as XFCE, etc.

I hoped you remembered to edit /etc/sysconfig/harddisks and uncomment the lines as this greatly impacts performance.

Also what size did you choose for the swap partitions?

After installing Mandrake 10.1 from a mini install cd the same thing happens as opjose. The software starts up fine, but getting some stuff to run takes almost a minute, and in some cases it doesn't startup at all. I have 512MB of RAM and an 80GB HDD with only mandrake on it. Its pretty crappy, I destroyed my windows cd for this, well its a good thing i still kept redhat 9 cause that one seems to be the one that works like it should. I don't understand why this happens, i never happend before after installing 10.0 from the cds, or upgrading to 10.1 via uprmi, it only seem to happen after using the mini-cd install. I am starting to think that the drive is full of junk and thats why its slowing down, I will do a clean install on a new drive full of zeros.