Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers
I'm just going to leave it as is, glxgears fps sucks, but warcraft was ok, drop shadows works fine, overall desktop performance seems fine too
everything says direct rendering is working properly, not sure why glxgears performance is half what others get with this card
Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers
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Originally Posted by mega
I'm just going to leave it as is, glxgears fps sucks, but warcraft was ok, drop shadows works fine, overall desktop performance seems fine too
everything says direct rendering is working properly, not sure why glxgears performance is half what others get with this card
By the way I've read somewhere that glxgears fps aren't very important (I don't remember the exact reason though).
Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers
Is there any way to enable hardware rendering without potentially randomly killing the x session? This was one of the reasons I went back to windows last time, because what use is emulating games like Warcraft 3 if they're unplayable?
Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers
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Originally Posted by arnoct
Is there any way to enable hardware rendering without potentially randomly killing the x session? This was one of the reasons I went back to windows last time, because what use is emulating games like Warcraft 3 if they're unplayable?
As mega said he/she had no problems with Warcraft. I don't use Linux for games.
1) Have you tried this guide? (following EVERY step)
2) If you tried it, which is your problem (when does it occur,etc.)?
Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers
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Originally Posted by tseliot
The file you are looking for is xorg.conf.
Have you tried this (in the command line)? :
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
And follow the instructions (it will also ask you the refresh rate (Vertical and Horizontal) of your monitor
As soon as I returned from the job started to apply your suggestions.
Yess! That worked. But the only difference in my xorg.conf file is that the 1600x1200 is added. my monitor supports that mode but since I don't want to use it I didn't thought to add it. But while reconfiguration when it asked me for the supported modes I also chose 1600x1200. After reconfiguration completed I started "Screen Resolution preference tool" and seen that for 1024x768 now 100hz is available \\:D/
Just chose it and it worked. :grin:
here is the diff of my previous and after reconfiguration xorg.conf files.
onlyOknows@ubuntu:~$ diff -u /etc/X11/xorg.conf.200508241920 /etc/X11/xorg.conf --- /etc/X11/xorg.conf.200508241920 2005-08-24 19:20:19.528869888 +0300
+++ /etc/X11/xorg.conf 2005-08-24 19:20:19.664849216 +0300
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
-# Load "dri"
+ Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
@@ -77,10 +77,6 @@
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-92
VertRefresh 50-160
#it was just a trial. I had also tried without the following 3 lines.
-
- # 1024x768 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 81.40 kHz; pclk: 113.31 MHz
- Modeline "1024x768_100.00" 113.31 1024 1096 1208 1392 768 769 772 814 -HSync +Vsync
-
EndSection
#see difference in modes. Only 1600x1200 is added!
Section "Screen"
@@ -90,27 +86,27 @@
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
- Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
+ Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
- Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
+ Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
- Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
+ Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
- Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
+ Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
- Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
+ Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
- Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
+ Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
onlyOknows@ubuntu:~$
Thanks for your help. Now I have a really flicker free monitor. :smile:
And by solving the problems I'm really getting far away to use MS Windows from day to day.
Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers
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Originally Posted by onlyOknows
Thanks for your help. Now I have a really flicker free monitor. :smile:
And by solving the problems I'm really getting far away to use MS Windows from day to day.
I hope one day you can completely switch to Ubuntu as I did.
I'm happy the monitor works for you now :)
Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers
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Originally Posted by onlyOknows
As soon as I returned from the job started to apply your suggestions.
Yess! That worked. But the only difference in my xorg.conf file is that the 1600x1200 is added. my monitor supports that mode but since I don't want to use it I didn't thought to add it. But while reconfiguration when it asked me for the supported modes I also chose 1600x1200. After reconfiguration completed I started "Screen Resolution preference tool" and seen that for 1024x768 now 100hz is available \\:D/
Just chose it and it worked. :grin:
Ohh No!!! When I reboot the machine lost 100hz again :-x
And beside that my login window is started to open at 1600x1200@65Hz (it was 1024x768@75Hz). And the main window is again 1024x768@85Hz as before.
What am I missing???
One more thing tseliot, you modified the "how to", and at the beggining you are saying that; "You need 7676 version only if you have Geforce 7800, otherwise is useless (and it has some bugs). If you haven't got this graphic card PLEASE try 7667, it's more stable."
So, since my graphic card is an Fx5200 T128 I think I need to downgrade the nvdia driver. How can I do that?
Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers
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Originally Posted by onlyOknows
Ohh No!!! When I reboot the machine lost 100hz again :-x
And beside that my login window is started to open at 1600x1200@65Hz (it was 1024x768@75Hz). And the main window is again 1024x768@85Hz as before.
What am I missing???
One more thing tseliot, you modified the "how to", and at the beggining you are saying that; "You need 7676 version only if you have Geforce 7800, otherwise is useless (and it has some bugs). If you haven't got this graphic card PLEASE try 7667, it's more stable."
So, since my graphic card is an Fx5200 T128 I think I need to downgrade the nvdia driver. How can I do that?
1) You can do this again:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
You can try to select the resolution you use as the only supported mode (1024x768 )
2) If you want to install 7667 follow the guide again and use nvidia installer 7667. It will ask you if you want to overwrite the previous installation, answer yes and there you go.
Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers
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Originally Posted by tseliot
As mega said he/she had no problems with Warcraft. I don't use Linux for games.
1) Have you tried this guide? (following EVERY step)
2) If you tried it, which is your problem (when does it occur,etc.)?
I'm having the "random freezeups when RenderAccel is turned on" bug. yes I followed the guide, but since it was really bad I rolled back my drivers to an old version (I only have a 32mb GeForce2) and the problem still persisted, albeit slightly less.
Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers
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Originally Posted by tseliot
1) You can do this again:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
You can try to select the resolution you use as the only supported mode (1024x768 )
2) If you want to install 7667 follow the guide again and use nvidia installer 7667. It will ask you if you want to overwrite the previous installation, answer yes and there you go.
1- it didn!t worked :-(
2- I successfully downgraded to 7667. here is the link where to download the installer for 7667 driver; http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-7667.html