On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
>> What sort of graphics card does the seat (i.e. screen you're looking at)
>> have? An "lspci" should list it.
>
> Since that's not recognised I tried the Desktop Effects stting in the
> Control Centre. Now there's an error. It says that my graphics card
> is not in Xgl's database. It's an nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS.
OK, that's the same as in my laptop running Ubuntu (the higher of those
two glxgear figures). Have a look at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
you need to install and configure the native nvidia driver which is part
of the restricted drivers (which you have to give permission to install
etc.).
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