NVIDIA Geforce 6200 graphics card is really slow.

Goldfish777 · 05-12-2010, 10:46 PM

I have the NVIDIA driver "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.24" installed for my Geforce 6200 but things like flash and stuff are running really slow. Do I need modules for the driver, like 3d accelerators or something? And if so how would I go about doing this?

John VV · 05-12-2010, 11:02 PM

it might be that you need the 173 driver for that old card
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...173.14.25.html

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GeForce 6 series:
6200 LE, 6800, 6800 GS, 6600 GT, 6150SE nForce 430, 6800 XE, 6200, 6150, 6200 TurboCache, 6800 GS/XT, 6250, 6800 LE, 6800 GT, 6200SE TurboCache, 6800 XT, 6600 LE, 6610 XL, 6150 LE, 6600 VE, 6100 nForce 405, 6100 nForce 400, 6600, 6500, 6100, 6100 nForce 420, 6700 XL, 6200 A-LE, 6150LE / Quadro NVS 210S, 6800 Ultra

Goldfish777 · 05-12-2010, 11:07 PM

Ok, I know how to install the 173 driver but I how do I remove the other one?

disturbed1 · 05-13-2010, 01:05 AM

Why would the OP need an older driver when the 6200 is still supported by the newest drivers? Did you edit xorg.conf correctly?

Your graphics card has very little to do with flash. Flash is not GPU accelerated, only CPU. The and stuff might be another issue. Depending on what this and stuff is, it could be the fact that 2d rendering is being handled by the vesa driver instead. Which might appear as if flash is running slow, but in fact, it is every vector drawing that is being hampered.

The best answers come from the best questions.

speck · 05-13-2010, 01:33 AM

I have a GeForce 6200 and I'm using 195.36.24, so that driver will work with that card. Check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log log file just to make sure that it is using the 195.36.24 driver.

Are flash videos only slow in fullscreen? How do non-HD non-fullscreen videos look on Youtube? If only HD and/or fullscreen videos are the issue, then that just might be the best your PC and video card can do. Flash is very poor on Linux.

Goldfish777 · 05-13-2010, 09:58 AM

Idont expect on getting much out of the graphics on the machine but.non HD non fullscreen youtube videos are pretty much fine. Simple flash games crawl. I know it is not the my internet speed because that is screamin' fast. I think it is 25 up and like 18 down. How do I tell if the log file is using it?

H_TeXMeX_H · 05-13-2010, 02:25 PM

It's just flash, try a different version, or there is likely no solution. Try the videos offline to prove it to yourself.

damgar · 05-13-2010, 05:19 PM

Look at the output of top while watching youtube. It's quite possible the processor is having troubles. Also make sure you are running the latest PRERELEASE adobe player. I have an old Celeron machine with a PCI Nvidia 6200 (might have been 6600) and going to the 10.1 prereleases helped a lot. I also saw a big difference if I was using fluxbox as opposed to KDE, or XFCE.

Unfortunately hardware acceleration in flash for linux doesn't really exist although there is talk of implementing it.

Finally it has been my experience (others disagree) that 64bit flash for linux is MUCH WORSE than 32 bit flash, maybe because of the delays in development.

cwwilson721 · 05-13-2010, 06:07 PM

The card would/should/does work fine in X. An easy way to check driver version is to look in your nvidia settings applet. Either in the menu structure, or can be called from cli with

Code:

nvidia-settings

If you see your driver version in there, x is using it.

As to slow flash, or java even, it's more than likely cpu-limited, or memory, or.... (My other box has a 6200AGP, and some videos ARE slow on it. Has a AMD2000+ Single-core cpu, and only 512MB ram. Sometimes, you got what you got....

Goldfish777 · 05-14-2010, 11:07 PM

Sorry for the long wait. I have been working how to get the BIOS updated and actually updating it. Since that problem is solved I shall now focus my efforts on this... tomorrow.

Goldfish777 · 05-16-2010, 11:50 AM

Ok, it is using the driver. Thanks for the help.

salemboot · 03-10-2012, 08:23 AM

I realize this thread is two years old. But there are still problems with older Nvidia cards. Personally I've identified it as being XOrg related.

Distribution Xorg
Slackware 13.37 1.95
Slackware 13.0 1.6.3
Slackware 12.2 1.4.2 6200
Slackware 12.0 1.3.0 mx440,6200

I ran Slackware 12 for the longest time. When I moved to 12.2 I noticed my old Nvidia MX440 started experiencing lag within KDE. I know it's not kernel related as I've tested several configurations.

I upgraded to Slackware 12.2 for another machine and it worked fine for an Nvidia 6200. But 13.0 started introducing latency. 13.37 was just a waste of my time. For outside control, I tried several versions of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 8.04 is comparable to Slackware 13.0. Almost unusable.

My solution to running the latest distributions is to download minitube. Web-based anything sucks.

Given the fact that Xorg developers are publicly stating they are dropping support for old hardware it's a shame. But as long as you're willing to compile your own packages. They can get stuffed.

peace