[PLUG] Poorer video performance on Ubuntu 10.04 than 8.04

[Matt McKenzie]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:07 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:34:57 -0800
> "Richard C. Steffens" <rsteff at comcast.net> dijo:
>
> >Thanks. I'll look into the nouveau driver. I have the nVidea driver
> >installed already:
> >
> >     NVIDIA Driver Version: 96.43.14
>
> I just installed the nVidia driver a couple days ago in an attempt to
> get my computer working with the projector in the PSU room where we
> have our general meetings. It was in the Fedora rpmfusion repository,
> and the version in the repository was the same as the latest version at
> nVidia's website. It is version 260.19.12.
>
> Yours seems a lot of versions older. But maybe there are different
> numbering schemes for different versions of the driver. E.g., mine is
> running an Quadro NVS 140M. Wouldn't hurt to check for the latest
> version, though.
>

This is probably the Nvidia Legacy driver version, and that is why the
numbering is different.
His graphics card is quite old, Geforce 2 MX.  A Quadro NVS 140M is more
recent.
In this case, the latest version of the driver wouldn't work on that older
card.




>
> >I did that at the recommendation of the OS. At some point it
> >recommended installing the nVidia driver, and I accepted the
> >invitation.
>
> That seems odd. In my experience Ubuntu doesn't even enable the
> non-open source repositories by default. Oh wait ... you have to
> install the nVidia driver if you want the desktop effects. That is
> probably when the OS "recommended" the nVidia driver.
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OP mentioned turning off the eye candy, that should help, especially on
older hardware.

Have you tried using one of the more lightweight window mangler
environments?  (XFCE, LXDE, Blackbox etc)

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Matt M.
LinuxKnight