[CVALE] 3D in Ubuntu

[Stephen Walski]

No the binary is in the ubuntu Repos. You just need to enable the resticted
liscense repos.

Full walkthru here works great.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

Havent had this fail for me yet.



On 6/21/06, Stephen Walski < stephen.walski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dennis Da-Ogre http://ogrehut.com
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