• Registered: 2010-03-06
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Topic: Nvidia Drivers won't work right <Solved> (firefox problem, not nvidia)

Love Crunchbang, but I've been having really poor performance with stuff like scrolling and such.

I installed Crunchbang (on a P4, 3Ghz, 1gig of memory).  Then I ran the System Update.  Then I ran Restricted Device Manager.  It recognized my Geforce 6600 card and I installed the driver.  The driver loads and I can change my resolution, tweak brightness settings in nvidia-settings and so forth.  It saves to xorg.conf and loads at boot, but performance isn't anywhere near what I've gotten when I was using Ubuntu before switching to Crunchbang.

Just to make sure, I uninstalled the nvidia video drivers and rebooted.  Performance is exactly the same without the drivers installed at the same resolutions and refresh rates.  I tried each driver version available with no difference.

While the drivers install they don't actually do their job at accelerating any video.  3d doesn't work at all.

Is there a work around for this?  I've tried two fresh installs to no avail and have no idea why this isn't working.  I've gotten the video card to work with every other version of Ubuntu and even every other version of Linux I've tried, but I like Crunchbang the most and want to get it working so that I don't have to use something else instead.  I would appreciate any help.

edit: Oh yeah, I've disabled all visual effects, compositing, and anything and everything else I could think of to improve speed, with no effect on the above problem.

Last edited by ledomira (2010-03-11 02:53:04)

  • Registered: 2010-03-06
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Re: Nvidia Drivers won't work right <Solved> (firefox problem, not nvidia)

I forgot to mention that I'm running Crunchbang 9.04 Jaunty, 32 bit version.

I doubt this will help, but I'm going to change the "nvidia" in the xorg.conf next to 'driver'to "Nvidia" and see if that does anything. (Ok, that didn't work at all)

Last edited by ledomira (2010-03-11 02:12:13)

  • Registered: 2010-03-06
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Re: Nvidia Drivers won't work right <Solved> (firefox problem, not nvidia)

ok, I just went and learned about nvidia-xconfig.  I removed the driver, reinstalled it, ran nvidia-xconfig, and then ran nvidia-settings.  Still no change.

I wanted to eliminate all other possible causes, so tried different live distros (i.e. PCLinuxOS).  I installed nvidia drivers on that and ended up with the same result.

I still don't know why 3d won't work in Crunchbang, but since the problem I'm having with scrolling doesn't seem any different with another completely different distro, I started looking at the browser.  When I was runing ubuntu 9.10, I had Firefox version 3.6 and I didn't have this delayed jerky scrolling problem.  But, in Crunchbang the Firefox version is 3.0.18.  I downloaded and installed Google Chrome and low and behold, it doesn't have this problem.  I played around with it, and it's usable (especially since it supports extensions now).  However, it needs a little work before it can replace Firefox in terms of usability.  I need the googlebar extension (ironically, google chrome doesn't seem to have it, but I haven't looked extensively, so I'm not certain about that).

So, now the question is how do I upgrade Firefox in Crunchbang?

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Re: Nvidia Drivers won't work right <Solved> (firefox problem, not nvidia)

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  • Registered: 2010-03-06
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Re: Nvidia Drivers won't work right <Solved> (firefox problem, not nvidia)

Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried it and it didn't seem to work.  Then I found somewhere else that says that the old firefox version and the new one both stay on the computer and you start the new one with firefox-3.5.  Well, I was able to upgrade, but it still had the same jerky scrolling problem.  Then I uninstalled all firefox versions.

So, finally I went to Mozilla's site and downloaded firefox 3.6 for linux.  I unpacked it and ran the firefox script.  It just ran and didn't need to be installed at all.  I could put it wherever I wanted to.  I wish all linux programs were like that.  I just pointed my launcher and menu shortcuts to the directory where it was and it works great.

Firefox version 3.6 fixes the problem I was having and isn't noticibly slower than chrome was.  I also find it easier to configure, so over all I'm pleased.

  • From: Nagoya, Japan
  • Registered: 2009-01-07
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Re: Nvidia Drivers won't work right <Solved> (firefox problem, not nvidia)

If you don't mind firefox 3.5 it's in the repositories. You call it as "firefox-3.5" but it calls itself "shiretoko". 3.6 you can install manually but it's more work.

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