Comment 135 for bug 251107

these two work:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/registry

or

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

you should get what you need there:

gene@runabout:~$ glxgears
2088 frames in 5.0 seconds = 417.542 FPS
2207 frames in 5.0 seconds = 441.245 FPS
2226 frames in 5.0 seconds = 444.931 FPS
2132 frames in 5.0 seconds = 426.196 FPS
2245 frames in 5.0 seconds = 448.984 FPS
2225 frames in 5.0 seconds = 444.952 FPS
2225 frames in 5.0 seconds = 444.871 FPS
2213 frames in 5.0 seconds = 442.170 FPS
2112 frames in 5.0 seconds = 422.347 FPS

gene@runabout:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/registry
VideoMemoryTypeOverride: 1
EnableVia4x: 0
EnableALiAGP: 0
NvAGP: 3
ReqAGPRate: 15
EnableAGPSBA: 0
EnableAGPFW: 0
SoftEDIDs: 1
Mobile: 4294967295
ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295
FlatPanelMode: 0
DevicesConnected: 0
RmLogonRC: 1
VbiosFromROM: 0
ModifyDeviceFiles: 1
DeviceFileUID: 0
DeviceFileGID: 0
DeviceFileMode: 438
RemapLimit: 0
UpdateMemoryTypes: 4294967295
DetectPrimaryVga: 1
EnableBrightnessControl: 0
PanelPWMFrequency: 1018
PanelBrightnessLimits: 65280
RMEdgeIntrCheck: 1
UsePageAttributeTable: 4294967295
MapRegistersEarly: 0

gene@runabout:~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 96.43.09 Mon Oct 27 14:23:30 PST 2008
GCC version: gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11)