KDE4, Nvidia 6600 GT, display errors

[Martin Bretschneider]

Am Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009 schrieb Alan Dacey Sr.:
> On Friday 09 October 2009 12:59:04 pm Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use Jaunty as 32bit version with a Geforce 6600 GT with 128 MB
> > RAM and the proprietary driver 180.44-0ubuntu1. I guess since I
> > upgraded my screen from 1280x1024 px to 1920x1080 px I get
> > sometimes screen errors as shown on
> > http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4748/bildschirmfoto4mod.png and
> > http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/8049/bildschirmfoto6cut.png
> >
> > I do not get any errors in ~/.xsession-errors or /var/log/X.org*
> >
> > Do you know this problem?
> >
> > TIA  Martin
>
> I had an nvidia 5400 LE with a similar problem on Hardy.  I had to
> use a different version of the driver.  I thought of it as it's an
> older card, try an older driver.
> The available packages should be nvidia-glx-173, -96, & -73.  Try
> installing the highest number and work backwards if it doesn't fix
> the problem.  I didn't really notice much difference between them,
> well except that the display worked.
> Good luck!

No, the 6600 GT is not a legacy device, so the default driver is used.  
Maybe the new driver in Karmic is better...

Martin
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