Video problems with Unity on older laptop

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 09:19 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote: 
> This is a genuine technical question, so hopefully it won't set off
> another firestorm controversy liek my last post (sorry about that -
> really).
> 
> My "new" laptop is an HP NW9440 (Core2Duo CPU, 2GB RAM, 17"screen)
> that has an nvidia Quadro FX 1500M video card in it.  It came with
> Win7 and I put Natty on it as a dual boot option (so as not to destroy
> the Win7 altogether).
> 
> Under Natty, it has video problems.  The screen frequently shows bit
> splatter trash, usually whenever something gets painted on the screen,
> like a terminal window or clicking on an icon - something gets
> distorted.

Didja crank up the nVidia X-server setup tool? That might help, and be
sure to allow it to write out a new etc/xorg.conf file. Myself, I use
jockey to properly install the driver. So, jockey first, nvidia X-server
setup tool second. After that you should be ready to go. Ric

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