nVidia graphics cards & Hyper Threading WTF?

[NadMan83]

I have an nVidia gForce Fx 5600 XT and cannot get the latest driver so that OpenGL will work on this machine. Also How do you know if your hyperthreading is enable in linux. I have it enabled in the bios.

[sky]

Re: nVidia graphics cards & Hyper Threading WTF?

Hi,

For processor, you should see two with this command :
sudo lshw -class CPU

About nvidia driver, you should take a look in wiki to install nvidia driver. Here is the link :
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bi...erHowto/Nvidia

Hope it helps

[NadMan83]

Re: nVidia graphics cards & Hyper Threading WTF?

when i type the command for the processor i get this:

*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 15.2.9
slot: Socket 478
size: 2800MHz
capacity: 3066MHz
width: 32 bits
clock: 200MHz
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
configuration: id=0
*-logicalcpu:0
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 0.1
width: 32 bits
capabilities: logical
*-logicalcpu:1
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 0.2
width: 32 bits
capabilities: logical


Does this mean that I have two processors running so that hyperthreading is working properly?

[sky]

Re: nVidia graphics cards & Hyper Threading WTF?

I think yes cause you have two logical units...
Anyway to be sure, open a konsole, type in "top"
Then when you will see the control center (kind of) type "1". If you see instead of cpu, cpu0 and cpu1, it's good... at least it's like this on my dual core.

Hope it helps

[NadMan83]

Re: nVidia graphics cards & Hyper Threading WTF?

Thanks for the help! This very helpful!

[sky]

Re: nVidia graphics cards & Hyper Threading WTF?

You're welcome.

Enjoy

[Guest]

Re: nVidia graphics cards & Hyper Threading WTF?

I found this script, I believe linked from winehq.org, which installs the most current nvidia drivers for you.

Envy

After you install it, bring up a konsole:

$ envy
password: <enter your PW>

It will then bring up a menu to install, uninstall drivers. Choose install and it will shut down the xserver, and ask you to login (then you have to run envy again):

login: <username>
password: <enter your PW again>
$ envy

You will then see it start downloading all of the packages, and installing them for you. After it finishes you should see the nice nVidia logo just before the normal login screen.