Jaunty: How do you activate video acceleration?

[marc]

Alan Dacey said...
> marc wrote:
> > Alan Dacey said...
> . . .
> >>>
> >> What video card?
> > 
> > $ lspci says
> > 
> > nVidia GeForce Go 6600
> > 
> > This is a laptop. No probs with video since badger.
> . . .
> > 
> 
> I am going to guess that the GeForce 6600 & nVidia driver is the issue.  My 
> son's machine had a GeForce 6200 LE and it gave me some problems at first.  I 
> couldn't get Tux Racer or Extreme Tux to play in full screen.  The monitor would 
> go blank and the only way to get it back was to restart kdm.  I installed the 
> 177, 173 & 169 drivers and it did not work until I got to the 96 drivers.  I had 
> the 173 working fine in Hardy but not in Intrepid, I think it is a KDE 4 thing. 
>   Try going down the line and see if that solves the problem using the 
> nvidia-glx-### packages.  I couldn't tell the difference between the drivers, 
> except for the full screen thing.

Thanks, Alan.

I've pretty much given up on this one. I'll progress it on launchpad. 
It's a royal pain not being able to use Ctrl+Alt+F? consoles, though.

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Cheers,
Marc