On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 08:01 +0200, Davyd McColl wrote: > Good day > > Thanks for your response. Suspecting that there could be a problem > with the card itself (rather inconveniently coincidental, since I just > bought a new mobo, psu and ram after a power surge (as far as I can > ascertain) killed my PSU and I wasn't sure exactly what was dead, and > just wanted to cover my bases; also, as noted in the OP, I reloaded, > going from 32bit Jaunty to 64bit -- that seemed like the most likely > culprit since 2D was working fine and 3D worked for a while), I bought > an XFX GTX260 -- I've wanted to upgrade for the last year or so > anyways... No problems now. (: > > I still find it odd that 2D worked flawlessly and 3D worked for a > short amount of time -- about 5 seconds for glxgears and anywhere from > 5 minutes to a few hours for GL screensavers... But perhaps there was > a circuit in the "3D parts" (I'm no electronic engineer!) which was > damaged and just needed to warm up a little through usage to become > blatantly broken. > > I'm going to give the card to someone else to test -- will report > back. If the card works fine for someone else, then I really don't > know how how to proceed with debugging this. I would have to assume > that if the card isn't faulty elsewhere, then someone else may > encounter the same issue. > > I'm still annoyed by the "nvidia flicker" on my laptop -- but > apparently that's a long-standing issue (allegedly the quick black > flicker is from the onboard gpu changing power usage / clock levels). > > To answer all posed questions (because it would be rude not to (: ). > Some answers are from memory, so please bear with me: > > 1) glxinfo showed the usual large amount of stuff -- with the gl > extensions supplied by NVIDIA > 2) Yes, the NVIDIA closed driver was not only installed, but in use -- > lsmod confirmed this (I also started to wonder...) > 3) I did have compiz-fusion enabled. Never had the problem before, but > I do believe I tried disabling compiz and still found simple apps like > glxgears to cause lockup. See the wierdness? Compiz-fusion worked fine > (with all its GL interaction), but something with a little more demand > wreaked havoc) > 4) Yes, totally up-to-date. Compulsively so (: > > -d
Bummer about not getting to troubleshoot it further, but I'm glad you got it worked out! (Happy gaming!) :-) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
