[Sderby] Re: Sderby Digest, Vol 114, Issue 1

[TED SMITH]

Try this - better than Automatix :
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

It needs a little bit of courage in that you have to
exit from the GUI, but if you follow the instructions
(for which there's only a few) you should be OK -
print them off first rather than trying to work from
memory.  It's a great script. I have an NVIDIA Geforce
FX5600 and it worked for me. 

Ted

My problem
> is that I am using a 20 inch Iiyama Vision Master
> Pro 510 monitor and I get
> a lot of flicker. With my XP I get a rock solid
> image with no flicker. How
> do I improve the image on my screen when using
> Ubantu? In Windows I can
> change the refresh rate etc. but the flicker in
> Ubantu is so annoying that I
> have not played with it at all.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Ranjit Verma
> Derby
> 07967-501038
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sderby-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:sderby-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf
> Of Tim Retout
> Sent: 11 November 2006 19:35
> To: South Derby LUG General Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Sderby] UK Ubuntu Team
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 12:08 +0000, R Verma wrote:
> > I would appreciate a word with this team member
> mentioned below, if they
> > could make themselves known please. It will be
> much appreciated.
> 
> I think the person in question was Ted Smith; but,
> I'm sure the UK
> Ubuntu Team covers a wide range of skill sets...
> you've got me intrigued
> as to the nature of your inquiry. :)
> 
> --
> Tim Retout <tim at retout.co.uk>
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:30:22 +0000
> From: Tim Retout <tim at retout.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: [Sderby] UK Ubuntu Team
> To: South Derby LUG General Mailing List
> <sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 13:04 +0000, R Verma wrote:
> > After trying several downloaded versions of Linux,
> none of which I managed
> > to install on my stand alone machine
> satisfactorily, I eventually got a
> > complete copy of Ubuntu as a freebee with one of
> the computer magazines. I
> > have for the first time ever managed to install it
> successfully. My problem
> > is that I am using a 20 inch Iiyama Vision Master
> Pro 510 monitor and I get
> > a lot of flicker. With my XP I get a rock solid
> image with no flicker. How
> > do I improve the image on my screen when using
> Ubantu? In Windows I can
> > change the refresh rate etc. but the flicker in
> Ubantu is so annoying that I
> > have not played with it at all.
> 
> Right, I remember this from 14th August. You have an
> NVidia GeForce FX
> 5200.
> 
> There are a couple of things that might be going
> wrong:
> 
> 
> * If you are seeing flicker only when moving windows
> about, or when
> using graphics-intensive applications, you may be
> using the default 'nv'
> driver for your graphics card, which does not have
> 3D hardware
> acceleration.
> 
> In other words, most of your graphics card is not
> being used, and your
> computer's main processor has to do all the work -
> it is struggling to
> keep up, so you see flicker. Here are some
> instructions for changing to
> the binary-only NVidia drivers, which do not come
> with source code, but
> may make your graphics card run better:
> 
> http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper
> 
> (The FSF would not approve.) :(
> 
> 
> * If it is the whole screen flickering all the time,
> then this is a
> different problem. (That's not to say that changing
> the driver won't
> improve performance, but it might not be the real
> problem.)
> 
> The refresh rate of the monitor might be set
> incorrectly. Here is a case
> of someone with an Iiyama monitor experiencing a
> similar problem:
> 
>
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2072.html
> 
> 
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