KDE4, Nvidia 6600 GT, display errors

[Alan Dacey Sr.]

On Saturday 10 October 2009 04:01:20 am Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> 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
> 

True, but it is still worth a try.  It only takes a few seconds to install and 
a minute so to log out and restart the X server.  If you can wait then the 185 
driver is available in Karmic.
-- 
Alan

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