Jaunty: How do you activate video acceleration?

[marc]

Alan Dacey said...
> marc wrote:
> > How do you activate video acceleration in jaunty?
> > 
> > The installation successfully loaded the nvidia driver and I can switch 
> > drivers and call up the nvidia settings tool. So it all looks okay. I 
> > get the fading effects and so on too.
> > 
> > OpenGL is selected in System Settings/Desktop/Advanced
> > 
> > But, when I try to run a gl screensaver or glxgears, the graphics are 
> > very slow moving; but they are there.
> > 
> 
> What video card?

$ lspci says

nVidia GeForce Go 6600

This is a laptop. No probs with video since badger.

> What driver?

I've tried 180 and 173. 96 is also an option, but I've not tried it. 
Bigger numbers being shiny and all.

> What FPS in glxgears?

At what size? The default size gives me 2041 FPS. Full screen, 3.2 FPS.

> What desktop settings do you have?

Type: Desktop
Name: <blank>
Theme: Oxygen
Type: Image
Picture: Air
Positioning: Scaled
Color (sic): <a kind of muddy blue with turquoise overtones>

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Cheers,
Marc