NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Extremely Slow

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/03/13 12:13, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 03/09/2013 05:32 PM, Keith Clark wrote:
>> 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!
>
> It's all I will use. But, adding a second video card and running three 
> monitors takes a performance hit using xinerama and the nVidia driver. 
> Gonna try setting them all to separate X displays and fiddling with 
> xrandr. xinarama disables xrandr. Warzone2100 across three displays is 
> awesome fun. Ric

BTW, if anyone is interested, nVidia released their latest driver - 
310.40 - a couple of days ago (here: 
http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/58680 - this is for me so you 
will need to alter to suit your own language choice).

BC

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