Got a nVidia graphics card and want to get it working properly in Ubuntu? The follow these easy steps and you will be
running nVidia drivers in no time!
First open a terminal window and type:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common
Now the drivers should be installed, now we need to configure them, so type:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
Should the above not enable the new driver, you can enable it manually by opening the X config file:
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and replace “nv” with “nvidia”
To enable XvMC by creating the nVidia XvMC configuration file
sudo gedit /etc/X11/XvMCConfig
Insert the following line into the new configuration file, to tell the players the name of the nVidia XvMC shared library:
libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
To use XvMC to accelerate video playback, use the following flags.
xine -V xxmc filename.ts
mplayer -vo xvmc -vc ffmpeg12mc filename.ts
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May 15th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
my windows go black if compiz is enabled