NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Extremely Slow

[Lawrence Houston]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Keith Clark wrote:

> 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"!!!

Agreed NVidia's Proprietory Drivers used to work in previous Ubuntu 
Releases for me as well, that said the 6200 is a Low End Card (comparred 
to NVidia's "Newer" Card).  "Catch" I have an 4X AGP Port and there is NOT 
Many Cards which I could find without a Fan that would fit my 2004 DELL!!!

Lawrence Houston  --  (ubuntu at greenfield.dyndns.org)