NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Extremely Slow

[Keith Clark]

On 13-03-09 04:58 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
Oh yeah.  It has been an issue since I upgraded to 12.10.  So glad I 
found that website!

Funny, in Ubuntu I get 550 fps.  In Xubuntu I get 1100 fps.  Now that is 
a major difference!