Karmic, Compiz, Nvidia 6200 APGx8

[Scott O'Nanski]

I've recently convinced my 57 year old Mother to give Ubuntu a try, and everything has installed well, enough except for one minor problem.

The Compiz performance, especially the cube, is laggy.

I've set her up on a;

Intel Core 2 Duo 3.40GHz
2gig Ram
Nvidia 6200 APGx8 card.
Ubuntu 9.10

Here's here Xorg;




# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Wed Dec 9 16:35:48 PST 2009

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Wed Dec 9 16:34:26 PST 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "LG W2343"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 6200"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoLogo" "yes"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "1920x1080_60 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection


I've looked all over, and have tried almost everything, and to no avail.

[tachuela]

That Card is a little short in talents to give you CompizFusion.

[Scott O'Nanski]

Yeah, I was suspecting that.

Wasn't too sure as I've never had anything less that a 8600M GT. :)

I suspect running it at 1920x1020 has a lot to do with it as well. Mind you, it's just the cube that is a little laggy.

[jocko]

That Card is a little short in talents to give you CompizFusion.
No, it's not. I have a geforce 6200 agp 8x and it runs compiz fusion just fine at 1680x1050(dfp)+1024x678(TV). The cube gets quite laggy with the 3d windows plugin activated if I have a few windows open, but it's ok if I inactivate 3d windows. And I only have a 1.86 GHz athlon xp (32 bit, single core, six years old).

This is my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Samsung"
ModelName "SyncMaster 2032BW"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "OverlayDefaultVisual" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "TwinView" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Option "BackingStore" "True"
Option "InitialPixmapPlacement" "2"
Option "DamageEvents" "True"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "True"
Option "MetaModes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, TV: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[Scott O'Nanski]

No, it's not. I have a geforce 6200 agp 8x and it runs compiz fusion just fine at 1680x1050(dfp)+1024x678(TV). The cube gets quite laggy with the 3d windows plugin activated if I have a few windows open, but it's ok if I inactivate 3d windows. And I only have a 1.86 GHz athlon xp (32 bit, single core, six years old).

This is my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Samsung"
ModelName "SyncMaster 2032BW"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "OverlayDefaultVisual" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "TwinView" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Option "BackingStore" "True"
Option "InitialPixmapPlacement" "2"
Option "DamageEvents" "True"
Option "DynamicTwinView" "True"
Option "MetaModes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, TV: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Okay, thanks for posting this but I don't know where to start...

[tachuela]

I tried everything and never could make it work.

[Scott O'Nanski]

I installed Jaunty to see if the same thing would happen, and it did - just not as much.

Then I changed the colour from 24 bit to 16 bit, and that made a world of difference performance wise but I lost all the borders on my windows.

So, I'll keep plugging away at it and see where I get.

If I find an acceptable solution then I'll post the process here.

[Scott O'Nanski]

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