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    Re: No SWAP in use !! Help!

    AGP card, forget 3d, compiz and so on

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    Re: No SWAP in use !! Help!

    Almost certainly that videocard and the drivers it requires. Its 9 years old, Im shocked it even works with todays kernels (and compiz?). Didnt nvidia end support for geforce 4 like half a decade ago?

    Anyway, perhaps there is a fix, Im not sure, but at the very least Id make sure you disable desktop effects.

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    Re: No SWAP in use !! Help!

    Quote Originally Posted by dino99 View Post
    AGP card, forget 3d, compiz and so on
    wow - that bad ! so, basically if my motherboard has only AGP I can forget performance improvements ? or is there an alternative to 9 yr old AGP cards ?
    Thanks a lot !

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    Re: No SWAP in use !! Help!

    AGP isnt the issue. If you can find a more modern videocard with an AGP interface, it should work fine as well. Problem is nVidia hasnt made anything on AGP since geforce 6 or 7 I think (and youd want at least a geforce 8 or 9 to get the full benefit of VPDAU etc). You can find fairly modern ATI cards for AGP but they cost an arm and a leg for the performance and features, and ATI isnt too great for linux.

    Anyway, for $10 you should be able to find a geforce 6200 AGP or something on ebay. Its a crap card as well, but at least it can use the latest drivers. For now. Do check if your motherboard supports AGP 8x.

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    Re: No SWAP in use !! Help!

    As a point of reference a year ago I was using an AGP mobo with AMD Sempron 1.6Mhz CPU and an FX5200 AGP 8X which ran Compiz successfully. A new FX6200 AGP can be had on-line for ~$40.
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    Re: No SWAP in use !! Help!

    Quote Originally Posted by dino99 View Post
    AGP card, forget 3d, compiz and so on
    This is simply not true. Plenty of AGP cards can handle 3D and compiz. Not something as old as a geforce4, of course, but still...

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    Re: No SWAP in use !! Help!

    Quote Originally Posted by lykwydchykyn View Post
    This is simply not true. Plenty of AGP cards can handle 3D and compiz. Not something as old as a geforce4, of course, but still...
    I used to run compiz (well, actually Beryl) on a geforce2 MX! Of course, that was eons ago on ubuntu 6.06 and when X and nvidia drivers still supported that card properly. It also wasnt very fast but enough to have a 3d cube somewhat smooth.

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    Re: No SWAP in use !! Help!

    Quote Originally Posted by m0nstersnatch View Post
    A Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4600/AGP/SSE2 is in use with 96.43.17 drivers installed.

    The thing is, I would't complain for a little bit of poor performance when I start going crazy with tabs and 20+ applications running and compiz doing all the special effects, but the hardware I have should work fine at least for 1 application in use - so, if I start Chromium, Firefox or Opera I would gladly watch a short flash movie online w/o getting nauseous..

    What else could it be?! I also cleaned the system using bleachbit. The kernel in use is 2.6.32-28-generic
    So now I bought a new video card: Nvidia GeForce GT430 with driver version 260.19.06
    There is now definitely improved performance regarding flash movies BUT this comes also to an end if I watch more then 1h lots of flash videos. After that it gets again shaky and sometimes even audio/video delay - not as ridiculous as before the new video card, but still...
    Is this normal?! Do you experience as well such behavior ?!
    PS. I have a 1080 monitor (hp 2510), but I do not watch the flash videos in more then 720p. 1080p flash video is not working at all ;(

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