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Revision as of 00:01, 20 November 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.
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
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
OK, so the nvidia machine is already running the closed binary driver. Not much to do there.
