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Also, I'd like to know how to generate an xorg.conf file since I blew mine away at one point to recover from a failed driver installation. | Also, I'd like to know how to generate an xorg.conf file since I blew mine away at one point to recover from a failed driver installation. | ||
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rday@merkli:/var/log$ lspci | grep VGA | rday@merkli:/var/log$ lspci | grep VGA | ||
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The preferred method of installing the binary ATI driver is via the package manager, but that doesn't work in Jaunty: | The preferred method of installing the binary ATI driver is via the package manager, but that doesn't work in Jaunty: | ||
<pre>JAUNTY NOTICE | |||
The above Jaunty 9.04 instructions don't actually work because the latest ATI driver is incompatible with XOrg 1.6. To see a guide on instructing how to downgrade XOrg and install the ATI driver, view this link: | |||
http://tan-com.com/posts/technology/fix-ubuntu-904-ati-driver-issue | |||
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I don't really want to downgrade my Xorg for this. | |||
The other option is to install the driver directly from ATI, but I found the documentation to be pretty old. It mentioned Dapper Drake... | |||
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rday@weasel:/var/log/landscape$ lspci | grep VGA | rday@weasel:/var/log/landscape$ lspci | grep VGA | ||
Revision as of 06:53, 9 December 2009
I'd like to get better performance out of my video cards. I have nvidia and ati cards in systems. The default drivers from Ubuntu work just fine, but if I can get better video playback or GoogleEarth performance, I think I need to try using closed binary drivers.
This link looks like the most helpful documentation I've seen for this process: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Video
Background
The current state of affairs is that my nvidia machine will run GoogleEarth and play video. The ati machine will not run GoogleEarth and it sometimes stutters on video. Also, I'd like to know how to generate an xorg.conf file since I blew mine away at one point to recover from a failed driver installation.
merkli
rday@merkli:/var/log$ lspci | grep VGA 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R350 AH [Radeon 9800] rday@merkli:/var/log$ lsmod | grep radeon radeon 636000 2 ttm 36212 1 radeon drm 159584 4 radeon,ttm i2c_algo_bit 5760 1 radeon
The preferred method of installing the binary ATI driver is via the package manager, but that doesn't work in Jaunty:
JAUNTY NOTICE
The above Jaunty 9.04 instructions don't actually work because the latest ATI driver is incompatible with XOrg 1.6. To see a guide on instructing how to downgrade XOrg and install the ATI driver, view this link:
http://tan-com.com/posts/technology/fix-ubuntu-904-ati-driver-issue
I don't really want to downgrade my Xorg for this.
The other option is to install the driver directly from ATI, but I found the documentation to be pretty old. It mentioned Dapper Drake...
weasel
rday@weasel:/var/log/landscape$ lspci | grep VGA
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1)
rday@weasel:/var/log/landscape$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia 10316904 36
rday@weasel:/var/log/landscape$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
OK, so the nvidia machine is already running the closed binary driver. Not much to do there.