NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Extremely Slow

[Ric Moore]

On 03/09/2013 01:25 PM, Keith Clark wrote:
> On 13-03-08 08:44 PM, Lawrence Houston wrote:
>> 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)
>>
> Well they list it as compatible in their documentation.
>
> Regardless, I think I've found the solution to my problem.  It can be
> found here:
> http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-quetzal-nvidia.html
>
> I went from 2.5 fps originally, 50 fps with the nouveau driver and
> finally 550 fps with the latest installed nvidia drivers as per the web
> page above.
>
> nvidia driver version shows 304.84
>
> I hope this might help someone else.
Glad you got it sorted! Whew! Congrats for keeping a level head and not 
fixing it with a blunt heavy object. Ric



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