[CVALE] 3D in Ubuntu

[Terry]

Hi Stephen,

Are you suggesting that I use the Debian Nvidia Binaries instead of the 
Ubuntu ones?   Or does the GUI Synaptic package manager and apt-get 
point to the same repository?

Do you know of another "simple" way to "test" the 3D driver?

Terry


Stephen Walski wrote:
> Should have just been able to do
> 
> sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
> sudo nvidia-glx-config enable
> sudo reboot
> 
> Get pretty Nvidia splash screen.. no need to modify xorg by hand.
> 
> GLXgears doest give FPS anymore because they got real touchy about people
> using it for a benchmark tool.
> 
> On 6/21/06, Dennis Baker <mtbogre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> What is the "Driver" line in xorg.conf?  It should be nvidia.
>>
>> -- Dennis
>>
>>
>> On 6/21/06, Terry <terry at zinnianet.net > wrote:
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > I loaded Ubuntu on someone's desktop so they could try Linux.  It seems
>> > to work okay.  The wireless even worked once we swapped out a newer
>> > Netgear PCI card for an older one.
>> >
>> > I'm having trouble getting the video drivers working for the Nvidia
>> > GeForce 7800GT card however.  lsmod shows either the default "nv" 
>> driver
>> >
>> > or the Synaptic installed "nvidia" driver after I modify the
>> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
>> >
>> > When I run glxgears though it's just a cpu running at 99% that's
>> > rendering the graphic.  Also glxgears is NOT giving the fps numbers.
>> > When I purposely make a mistake in the xorg.conf file X11 complains 
>> so I
>> > believe Ubuntu uses that path.
>> >
>> > What am I doing wrong?  Is there another simple test for the 3D
>> > acceleration other than glxgears?  Do I need to pull the Nvidia web 
>> site
>> >
>> > file down because there's a problem with the Ubuntu binary driver.
>> >
>> > We're running the current desktop Ubuntu release pulled from the Ubuntu
>> > site (or a mirror) about 10 days ago (6.06).  We also updated to the
>> > newest kernel ( -25) available with an Ubuntu update via the Synaptic
>> > manager.
>> >
>> > This is a dual boot machine and the video card works fine in MSXP-SP2.
>> >
>> > Although I've never cared for point-and-click distributions in the 
>> years
>> >
>> > past I'm giving this one a try and it mostly works on the target
>> > hardware.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help.
>> >
>> > Terry
>> >
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>>
>> -- 
>> Dennis Da-Ogre http://ogrehut.com
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