I had Kubuntu, and it was fine, but then i got Beryl greedy

[Robin T Cox]

Re: I had Kubuntu, and it was fine, but then i got Beryl greedy

For the latest Nvidia driver for Geforce 4 MX, see:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-9631.html

[dibl]

Re: I had Kubuntu, and it was fine, but then i got Beryl greedy

I THINK that the nvidia-glx package has the -9631 version driver integrated in it -- I'm not totally sure about it. To find out, you should be able to type

nvidia-settings

in the console and have the Nvidia driver utility come up. If that works, it will show the driver version. On mine (which is -9755) the fifth menu item under "X Screen 0" is "Open GL/GLX Information". You should be able to open that and see a lot of GLX and GL "Extensions" listed. If all that looks correct, then probably you should not change anything in the driver setup.

So, if the driver is all correct, then you might need to edit your etc/X11/xorg.conf file to enable argb-glx-visuals and compositing (I'm assuming the -9631 driver supports those, but I don't know it for sure). Here are the relevant stanzas from my xorg.conf, -- notice the "Option" line for argb-glx-visuals and and the "Extensions" section for compositing, and that the screen depth needs to be set at 24:

Section "Device"
  Identifier   "Videocard0"
  Driver     "nvidia"
  VendorName   "NVIDIA Corporation"
  BoardName   "GeForce 7900 GS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier   "Screen0"
  Device     "Videocard0"
  Monitor    "Monitor0"
  DefaultDepth  24
  Option     "metamodes" "1600x1200 +0+0"
  Option     "Coolbits" "1"
  Option     "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
  SubSection   "Display"
    Depth    24
    Modes   "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
  Option     "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[SheeEttin]

Re: I had Kubuntu, and it was fine, but then i got Beryl greedy

"glxinfo | grep direct". If the answer's no, then you've got some setting up to do.