NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Extremely Slow

[Keith Clark]

On 13-03-08 06:21 PM, Lawrence Houston wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Sorry I missed the Original Posting...
>
> None of NVidia's Drivers work "Correcty" with the 6200, remove all 
> Propietory NVidia Drivers the Default "Nouveau" Driver will be Unity 
> "Friendly"!!!
>
> Lawrence Houston  ---  (ubuntu at greenfield.dyndns.org)
>
That is too bad to hear.  I've already done that and now get 40 fps with 
glxgears.  That is pretty sad.  I thought the card would do better.  It 
used to several releases ago!