On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:07 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:34:57 -0800 > "Richard C. Steffens" <[email protected]> dijo: > > >Thanks. I'll look into the nouveau driver. I have the nVidea driver > >installed already: > > > > NVIDIA Driver Version: 96.43.14 > > I just installed the nVidia driver a couple days ago in an attempt to > get my computer working with the projector in the PSU room where we > have our general meetings. It was in the Fedora rpmfusion repository, > and the version in the repository was the same as the latest version at > nVidia's website. It is version 260.19.12. > > Yours seems a lot of versions older. But maybe there are different > numbering schemes for different versions of the driver. E.g., mine is > running an Quadro NVS 140M. Wouldn't hurt to check for the latest > version, though. > This is probably the Nvidia Legacy driver version, and that is why the numbering is different. His graphics card is quite old, Geforce 2 MX. A Quadro NVS 140M is more recent. In this case, the latest version of the driver wouldn't work on that older card. > > >I did that at the recommendation of the OS. At some point it > >recommended installing the nVidia driver, and I accepted the > >invitation. > > That seems odd. In my experience Ubuntu doesn't even enable the > non-open source repositories by default. Oh wait ... you have to > install the nVidia driver if you want the desktop effects. That is > probably when the OS "recommended" the nVidia driver. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > OP mentioned turning off the eye candy, that should help, especially on older hardware. Have you tried using one of the more lightweight window mangler environments? (XFCE, LXDE, Blackbox etc) ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
