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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