Slow framerate with latest nvidia drivers using Gutsy and XFX 8600gt
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Bug Description
Using Gutsy or Feisty with the latest nvidia drivers available (installing using restricted drivers wizard) is really slow.
My previous card was a 6600 GT (wich I am using now) and worked perfectly. Now with the new card, everything works much slower. Direct rendering is enabled, and the nvidia driver is loaded acording to xorg.conf. One odd behaviour I noticed is that when I launch glxgears the system freezes and the login screen is displayed again. Another issue I noticed is that when using this card, I can't set my lcd monitor (samsung 971p) properly. Only 50hz and 54hz refresh rate is available. With the 6600gt I can set 60hz or 75hz wich is the recommended setting.
Tried with manual driver install, envy, restricted drivers. Everything with the same results when using 8600 gt.... really slow.
I had to install my previous card (6600gt) in order to keep using ubuntu, I hope we can sort this out so I can use my new card wich is now collecting dust :)
huntermix: /help.ubuntu. com/community/ BinaryDriverHow to/Nvidia ).
The hz isn't actually related to the speed of your card at all (it's just the refresh rate of your screen). Further the "incorrect" reporting of it is Bug #92599 (also see the troubleshooting section of https:/
The first question is what is the output of
dpkg -l \*nvidia\* | grep ii
dpkg -l \*xgl\* | grep ii
?
There is not really enough information in this bug to diagnose the problem at this stage. Please can you attach your
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
file along with the dmesg.txt file produced by running
dmesg > dmesg.txt
while X is running slowly?