NVIDIA 3D acceleration

[Ric Moore]

On 11/02/2011 08:18 PM, ssc1478 wrote:
> 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.

Huh, reboot?? As I mentioned I ditched both KDE and Gnome is favor of 
using XFCE. It's speedier. Less overhead. Ric


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