Still having issues with an embedded nvidia 6100 card & 3d

[Karl Larsen]

David Fox wrote:
> Guys (and gals)
>
> I'm still having problems that I posted about a few weeks ago when I
> first installed ubuntu hardy heron, 64 bit.
>
> I have this motherboard - an ECS 6100-pm-m2, and it has an embedded
> Geforce 6100 nforce 430. Previously, I was using debian lenny, 32 bit,
> and I had an nvidia FX 5200 AGP graphics card. 3d worked, compiz
> almost worked, but I never had the problems I am having with the
> 169.12 nvidia driver.
>
> Pretty much running anything 3d (compiz for instance) wrecks my
> display in that icons start disappearing off the screen, my icons at
> the bottom for instance (kicker, I use KDE) get deformed and go to
> solid colors, and most of the text in windows get replaced with solid
> black colors.
>
> Someone on another list mentioned mesa, and I have these packages installed.
>
> dfox at newbox:/usr/lib/nvidia$ dpkg -l | grep mesa
> ii  libgl1-mesa-dev                            7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
>                            A free implementation of the OpenGL API --
> G
> ii  libgl1-mesa-dri                            7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
>                            A free implementation of the OpenGL API --
> D
> ii  libgl1-mesa-glx                            7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
>                            A free implementation of the OpenGL API --
> G
> ii  libglu1-mesa                               7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
>                            The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
> ii  libglu1-mesa-dev                           7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
>                            The OpenGL utility library -- development
> fi
> ii  mesa-common-dev                            7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
>                            Developer documentation for Mesa
> ii  mesa-utils                                 7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
>                            Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities
>
>
> On the other hand, this is what I see for xlibmesa:
>
> dfox at newbox:/usr/lib/nvidia$ locate mesa
> /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
> /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa
> /usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
> /usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.xlibmesa
>
> And if I go into /usr/lib/nvidiia, I see:
>
> fox at newbox:/usr/lib/nvidia$ ls -l
> total 1068
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 519408 2008-04-05 15:05 libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-05-23 09:12 libGL.so.1.xlibmesa ->
> libGL.so.1.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 547015 2008-04-15 10:56 libglx.so.xserver-xorg-core
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   5064 2008-06-02 11:00 tls_test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4920 2008-06-02 11:00 tls_test_dso.so
>
> That first symlink appears to be broken, but doing an ldd against
> offending applications shows no trace of xlibmesa being used.
>
> i.e., ldd `which compiz.real` | grep mesa returns no output.
>
> Things were passable (but still broken) using nvidia-glx, but I went
> in and installed nvidia-glx-new and it's worse.
>
> I've posted also in ubuntuforums but so far no responses.
>
> I'm about to give up on this and go back to debian lenny but I figured
> I'd ask again to see if anyone out there has this motherboard and can
> compare notes.
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
    I do not use 64 bit and use gnome but I do have a nVidia video card 
on my motherboard. This can be a problem. And your looking for the full 
capability of the nVidia card.

    Suggest you go to the nVidia web page and get their latest bash file 
for Ubuntu. You install that from the init 1 and it writes to the kernel 
and gives you a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. It might do just what your 
looking for.

Karl


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