nvidia-304-dev
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Thu Sep 28 07:29:31 UTC 2017
Jaime de Paula schreef op 27-09-2017 21:04:
> Hi there! My name is Jaime de Paula and I write from Brazil. I'm using
> Ubuntu 16.04 and have a GeForce 7025/ nForce 630a NVIDIA video card
> motherboard integrated. When I use Ubuntu with the Unity window manager
> and the NVIDIA legacy binary driver - version 304.137 (open source) the
> screen have some long delays and lots of freezes screen that are often
> unrecoverable. If I choose Nouveau display driver the performance is
> much better (everything works fast), but after some minutes the screen
> freezes and I have to reset the computer manually. Could you tell me if
> there's a solution for me? Could I have an older driver (because it
> used to be great until Ubuntu 12.04)? For now I can't pay for another
> video card. If I choose to work with another window manager
> (Enlightenment, Cinnamon, etc...) it works perfectly, and so I guess
> it's an incompatibility between Unity and my video card. But Unity is
> better for me.
I think it would be difficult to troubleshoot issues after this time.
There are more cards that have problems somewhere, ie. I have an older
GT something card that will work fine in Cinnamon as long as I use
Nouveau, but it will crash Cinnamon when I use the legacy nVidia, and it
creates weird diagonal tearing in KDE.
In these cases getting a cheap second hand card if at all possible is
probably the more cost effective (in terms of time) way to approach a
solution.
For instance I never had issues with a GT 640.
I can find cards as cheap as 15 euros where I live, such as GT 610.
But avoid Asus EN7600GS Silent ;-).
Well anyway I don't think you will find any other solace.
Not unless you want to be the person that puts lots of time into bug
reporting or solving the issue and I don't think that's worth it.
Regards.
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