Resolution problem in Hardy

[John Cavan]

David Fox wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:09 PM, John Cavan <john at damncats.org> wrote:
> 
>> New to the list, but I recently installed Hardy AMD64 on one of my
>> machines that has an nVidia card. The proprietary driver simply failed
>> to work; I had to grab the one from nVidia and install it instead and
>> then tweak the xorg.conf file.
> 
> nvidia 6100 (on motherboard) and amd64 here as well. Had this setup
> for about two weeks.
> 
> What driver were you using? 169.12 (aka nvidia-glx-new) just doesn't
> work as well as 100.14.19 did on debian lenny. OTOH that was a 32 bit
> machine and a separate AGP card (FX 5200).

I'm currently using 173.14 as it solved a couple problems I had with Civ 
IV Warlords under Wine. I still can't Beyond the Sword to work though.

> I'm having a few glitches related to screen painting that happen when
> I run compiz, but some other GL apps cause the problems as well. I
> filed a bug report about this a few days ago.

I get the odd glitch in the display with this version, but it's not 
common and I can usually get it to sort out by minimizing a window or 
moving the window around a little. Anyways, it's infrequent enough to 
not really be a problem, though I keep and eye on nVidia's site for updates.

>> Final note, if your setup is 64 bit, make sure that you install the 32
>> bit libraries from nVidia in the process (it will ask you).
> 
> I did notice that nvidia-glx-new installed 32 bit libs as well. Not
> sure why though, I figured that the driver was really 64 bit. I guess
> they're needed to run 32 bit programs linked against the GL such as
> google earth.

Yeah, basically, you need these for any 32 bit apps you might have that 
need the OpenGL libraries.

John