nvidia-304-dev

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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.