Still having issues with an embedded nvidia 6100 card & 3d

[David Fox]

Guys (and gals)

I'm still having problems that I posted about a few weeks ago when I
first installed ubuntu hardy heron, 64 bit.

I have this motherboard - an ECS 6100-pm-m2, and it has an embedded
Geforce 6100 nforce 430. Previously, I was using debian lenny, 32 bit,
and I had an nvidia FX 5200 AGP graphics card. 3d worked, compiz
almost worked, but I never had the problems I am having with the
169.12 nvidia driver.

Pretty much running anything 3d (compiz for instance) wrecks my
display in that icons start disappearing off the screen, my icons at
the bottom for instance (kicker, I use KDE) get deformed and go to
solid colors, and most of the text in windows get replaced with solid
black colors.

Someone on another list mentioned mesa, and I have these packages installed.

dfox at newbox:/usr/lib/nvidia$ dpkg -l | grep mesa
ii  libgl1-mesa-dev                            7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
                           A free implementation of the OpenGL API --
G
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri                            7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
                           A free implementation of the OpenGL API --
D
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx                            7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
                           A free implementation of the OpenGL API --
G
ii  libglu1-mesa                               7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
                           The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libglu1-mesa-dev                           7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
                           The OpenGL utility library -- development
fi
ii  mesa-common-dev                            7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
                           Developer documentation for Mesa
ii  mesa-utils                                 7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
                           Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities


On the other hand, this is what I see for xlibmesa:

dfox at newbox:/usr/lib/nvidia$ locate mesa
/usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
/usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa
/usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
/usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa

And if I go into /usr/lib/nvidiia, I see:

fox at newbox:/usr/lib/nvidia$ ls -l
total 1068
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 519408 2008-04-05 15:05 libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-05-23 09:12 libGL.so.1.xlibmesa ->
libGL.so.1.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 547015 2008-04-15 10:56 libglx.so.xserver-xorg-core
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   5064 2008-06-02 11:00 tls_test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4920 2008-06-02 11:00 tls_test_dso.so

That first symlink appears to be broken, but doing an ldd against
offending applications shows no trace of xlibmesa being used.

i.e., ldd `which compiz.real` | grep mesa returns no output.

Things were passable (but still broken) using nvidia-glx, but I went
in and installed nvidia-glx-new and it's worse.

I've posted also in ubuntuforums but so far no responses.

I'm about to give up on this and go back to debian lenny but I figured
I'd ask again to see if anyone out there has this motherboard and can
compare notes.

Thanks.