NVIDIA 3D acceleration

[ssc1478]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/01/2011 08:15 PM, ssc1478 wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Jeff G.<connyank at cox.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/01/2011 04:21 PM, ssc1478 wrote:
>
> The trick is to get what's correct written out to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Click on the tab "X Server Display Configuration".
> Click on "Save to X configuration file".
> Save it as /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> enter your password
> Tah Dah!
> Logout and log back in again.
> This time you will see a LOT more info in your xorg.conf file than you had
> before. Most notably you'll see:
> Section "Device"
>    Identifier     "Device0"
>    Driver         "nvidia"
>    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>    BoardName      "D9M-20"  <-----whatever your's is
> .
> Run something like glxgears to test. Now OWL will sit up and do tricks for
> you. Also use this to set up multiple monitors with nVidia hardware. Enjoy!
> Ric
>

Thanks Ric.  I had hopes - it worked as far as getting the info into
xorg.conf and glxgears works but Unity still doesn't work.

Phil