NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Extremely Slow

[Colin Law]

On 8 March 2013 21:14, Keith Clark <keithclark at waterloosubstop.com> wrote:
> I am currently running Xubuntu 12.10 64 bit and have a NVIDIA 6200 video
> card with 512 MB of memory on it.
>
> Using the NVIDIA 304.48 driver I am getting extremely slow performance.
> Ubuntu running Unity will not even start up.  I see it starting, get to my
> background showing and then nothing else shows up.  I have to ctl-alt-del
> and log in with a Xubuntu session to use my computer at all.
>
> glxgears reports 2.5 fps.
>
> Using the open source drivers yields only about 25 fps.
>
> Any ideas on what is wrong here?  I files a bug report back in December but
> got nothing back yet.

What do you see if, in a terminal, you run

 /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

Colin