NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Extremely Slow

[Keith Clark]

On 13-03-08 08:44 PM, Lawrence Houston wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Keith Clark wrote:
>
>> On 13-03-08 07:10 PM, Lawrence Houston wrote:
>>> On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Keith Clark wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 13-03-08 06:21 PM, Lawrence Houston wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8 March 2013 21:14, Keith Clark 
>>>>>> <keithclark at waterloosubstop.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I am currently running Xubuntu 12.10 64 bit and have a NVIDIA 
>>>>>>> 6200 video
>>>>>>> card with 512 MB of memory on it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Using the NVIDIA 304.48 driver I am getting extremely slow 
>>>>>>> performance.
>>>>>>> Ubuntu running Unity will not even start up.  I see it starting, 
>>>>>>> get to my
>>>>>>> background showing and then nothing else shows up.  I have to 
>>>>>>> ctl-alt-del
>>>>>>> and log in with a Xubuntu session to use my computer at all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> glxgears reports 2.5 fps.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Using the open source drivers yields only about 25 fps.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any ideas on what is wrong here?  I files a bug report back in 
>>>>>>> December but
>>>>>>> got nothing back yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry I missed the Original Posting...
>>>>>
>>>>> None of NVidia's Drivers work "Correcty" with the 6200, remove all 
>>>>> Propietory NVidia Drivers the Default "Nouveau" Driver will be 
>>>>> Unity "Friendly"!!!
>>>
>>> Agreed NVidia's Proprietory Drivers used to work in previous Ubuntu 
>>> Releases for me as well, that said the 6200 is a Low End Card 
>>> (comparred to NVidia's "Newer" Card).  "Catch" I have an 4X AGP Port 
>>> and there is NOT Many Cards which I could find without a Fan that 
>>> would fit my 2004 DELL!!!
>>>
>>> Lawrence Houston  --  (ubuntu at greenfield.dyndns.org)
>>>
>> Lawrence,
>>
>> Did you try to get any support from NVIDIA on this?  In their dev 
>> forums?
>>
>> Keith
>
> I did not contact NVidia on this issue.  Given the age of the 6200 I 
> question whether they would want to track it down???
>
> Lawrence Houston  --  (ubuntu at greenfield.dyndns.org)
>
Well they list it as compatible in their documentation.

Regardless, I think I've found the solution to my problem.  It can be 
found here:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-quetzal-nvidia.html

I went from 2.5 fps originally, 50 fps with the nouveau driver and 
finally 550 fps with the latest installed nvidia drivers as per the web 
page above.

nvidia driver version shows 304.84

I hope this might help someone else.

Keith