NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Extremely Slow

Lawrence Houston ubuntu at greenfield.dyndns.org
Sat Mar 9 01:44:40 UTC 2013


On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Keith Clark wrote:

> On 13-03-08 07:10 PM, Lawrence Houston wrote:
>> 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)
>> 
> Lawrence,
>
> Did you try to get any support from NVIDIA on this?  In their dev forums?
>
> Keith

I did not contact NVidia on this issue.  Given the age of the 6200 I 
question whether they would want to track it down???

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




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