[CVALE] 3D in Ubuntu

[Stephen Walski]

Forgot the command to do it now... glxgears
-iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark  should show your FPS

On 6/21/06, Stephen Walski <stephen.walski at gmail.com> 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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> > --
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