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Mahakala Omegamu
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Join date: 9 Apr 2006
Posts: 20
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10-25-2008 15:01
I was using the client on ubuntu a week ago with my Nvidia 280 and it worked just fine, now i'm getting not supported video card messages. Is there any way to tell SL to disable stop trying to figure out of my video card is supported or not? I don't know why it is so dog slow now. Can anyone tell me whats going on?
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Drake Bacon
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Join date: 13 Jul 2005
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10-28-2008 16:51
I'm not familiar with an Nvidia 280 card. Geforce cards are usually four numbers, like the Ti 4400 (4 series), The 5MX series, 6600 (6 series), 7800 (7 series), 8800 (8 series) or 9800 (9 series).
Check to see if you're using the "nv" driver or the binary Nvidia driver. You should be able to find out in the Restricted Hardware Driver control panel. The latter will be there if it's active. If you have the "nv" driver you'll on the open-source driver that is expressly 2D (and thus sucky performance)
If you got the binary NVidia driver, then check which version it is. Digging through the /var/log/Xorg.0.log will help. Nvidia's latest dropped support for the 5-MX and below cards. Here's a short list of what I can glean off their README on their site:
Driver 177.80: Geforce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series (including Go mobile chips); Geforce GTX 280/260; Tesla C870; nForce 6xx/7xx cards; Most Quadro's
Driver 173.14.xx: Geforce 5-series, some older Quadro's.
Driver 96.43.xx: Geforce 4-series down to some Geforce 2 series, some older Quadro's (including Quadro2/Quadro4)
Driver 71.86.xx: Riva TNT's; Geforce 256, DDR, 2 GTS/PRO, 2 Ti, 2 Ultra; Quadro and Quadro2 Pro.
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Tiyuk Quellmalz
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Join date: 9 Jan 2007
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11-02-2008 16:40
If it's "dog slow", you're probably using software rendering. This is most likely due to a distribution upgrade on your system. As the previous reply said, make sure you're using the Nvidia binary driver by running glxinfo and looknig for "Direct rendering: Yes", and no mention of Mesa in the OpenGL client string. BTW, get with the times Drake.  The Nvidia GTX 280 and GTX 200 are the next gen Nvidia GPUs. They came out over the summer. I have one, and the graphics at least are perfect with the latest SL viewer and Ubuntu 8.10. Tiyuk |
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Drake Bacon
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Join date: 13 Jul 2005
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11-02-2008 18:30
From: Tiyuk Quellmalz If it's "dog slow", you're probably using software rendering. This is most likely due to a distribution upgrade on your system. As the previous reply said, make sure you're using the Nvidia binary driver by running glxinfo and looknig for "Direct rendering: Yes", and no mention of Mesa in the OpenGL client string. BTW, get with the times Drake. The Nvidia GTX 280 and GTX 200 are the next gen Nvidia GPUs. They came out over the summer. I have one, and the graphics at least are perfect with the latest SL viewer and Ubuntu 8.10. Tiyuk What did they do, not even consider a 10-series?
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Mahakala Omegamu
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Join date: 9 Apr 2006
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11-05-2008 06:47
My results were the same as Tiyuk. I use Ubuntu 8.10 now as of the 30th. I don't know what their secret sauce is but graphically. SL works fine now. Is there any way people improve visual quality on Linux? I notice that max settings on linux do not look like maxed out settings on vista.
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