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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    Quote Originally Posted by Fyrzen
    Fix't.

    Thanks for your help, t'was my mistake.
    Screensavers actualy work with a decent fps now, thanks again for this guide!
    I'm happy for you

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    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.

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    Quote Originally Posted by onlyOknows
    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?

    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.

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    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

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    Quote Originally Posted by mega
    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?

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    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)

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    Quote 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.

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    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?!?

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    Quote Originally Posted by tseliot
    1) can you post your /etc/xorg.conf, please?

    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.
    Celestia is a real-time visual simulation of space program.

    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)
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    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.

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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    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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