I'm happy for youOriginally Posted by Fyrzen
I'm happy for youOriginally Posted by Fyrzen
my experience after appling this howto; (I think I need some help too)
I tried this upgrade expecting to be able to make my philips 107B monitor run with 100Hz refresh rate. But I'm still can't reach this refresh rate. It's still working with 85 Hz at 1024x768. But I know this monitor and my FX5200 card support 100hz. (Actually it runs at 100Hz under windows.) How can I succed in that issue?
I could easily completed installing new nvidia drivers by following simply this howto.
Thanks to tseliot.
But I'm not sure if I really succedded upgrading my drivers. How can I check it. When I restarted the gdm after installation it seems nothing changed!!! But at least I could be able to return my X again
And an other thing, I have previously installed Celestia. It was working well before the installation. After this upgrade it started to not to work!.
The error I got when I tried to start celestia is below;
onlyOknows@ubuntu:~$ celestia
kbuildsycoca running...
Unable to resolve Xmu symbols - please check your Xmu library installation.
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-10336' to 'celestia'
celestia: ERROR: Communication problem with celestia, it probably crashed.
onlyOknows@ubuntu:~$
Thanks in advance.
P.S.
These how to really makes sense for newbies like me. I'm learning many more things besides the main aim of the howto by just appling these howto's, even I can't succed. Thanks again.
1) can you post your /etc/xorg.conf, please?Originally Posted by onlyOknows
2) I don't know Celestia but I think you should try to reinstall it
3) If you want to know which driver version you are using try this (it's from Ubuntu Starter guide):
Open Terminal or Konsole and type
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/NVIDIA-Settings.desktop (you can use "kate" instead of "gedit" in KDE)
Insert the following lines into the new file
[Desktop Entry]
Name=NVIDIA Settings
Comment=NVIDIA Settings
Exec=nvidia-settings
Icon=
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;System;
Save the file and exit.
Restart your computer
You will be able to see "Nvidia settings" in the menu (I don't remember the exact name of the menu in GNOME which is the one with all the applications, and which is called kmenu in KDE)
Use it and you will be able to check and set a few things.
I'm going to add this in the guide
Let me know if it works.
Is there a howto to ensure everything is working?
glxgears peaks my cpu at 100 %, and seems pretty slow, trying to play warcraft is not fun
card is a fx5200
mega@mainpc:/etc/X11$ glxgears
5103 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1020.600 FPS
6049 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1209.800 FPS
mega@mainpc:/etc/X11$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status: Enabled
Driver: AGPGART
AGP Rate: 8x
Fast Writes: Enabled
SBA: Enabled
I can run xpdyinfo but ONLY if it's the first thing I do, if I run it after glxgears I crash out to the shell, and gdm restarts
mega@mainpc:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
Which driver version do you use?Originally Posted by mega
mega@mainpc:~$ glxgears -info
GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS=4096/4096
GL_RENDERER = GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!
GL_VERSION = 2.0.0 NVIDIA 76.76
GL_VENDOR = NVIDIA Corporation
76.76 I think, installed it last night
I coulda swore I was getting 3000fps last night, today after a few reboots everything is slow again, been trying to get my microphone working properly (it is now)
Please use 7667, they are more stable. Try to install them and see if they solve the problem. You need 7676 only if you have Geforce 7800, otherwise is useless.Originally Posted by mega
installign it now
I did learn something interesting
glxinfo only crashes if I run it right after glxgears
but if I do glxinfo > test.txt it wont crash
it must be writing something from the registers onto the screen that crashes the driver?!?
Celestia is a real-time visual simulation of space program.Originally Posted by tseliot
I installed nvidia-settings as you said. But after installation I couldn't find the file NVIDIA-Settings.desktop in the location you said. (even I did "locate")
my xorg.conf file; (just the working lines)
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Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# paths to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
# Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "tr"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "PHILIPS 107B"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-86
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
Monitor "PHILIPS 107B"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x350"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
-----------------------end of my xorg.conf--------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks.
No improvement with 7667
mega@mainpc:~$ glxgears -info
GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS=4096/4096
GL_RENDERER = GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!
GL_VERSION = 2.0.0 NVIDIA 76.67
GL_VENDOR = NVIDIA Corporation
4957 frames in 5.0 seconds = 991.400 FPS
5257 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1051.400 FPS
5223 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1044.600 FPS
cpu is peaked at 100 %, should glxgears hit the cpu like that?
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