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b1tgl0w

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Registered: 2011-11-30

Posts: 42

[SOLVED] GeForce 210 Graphics Card | Video Card Artifacts

My old card stopped working (caused both Linux and Windows to crash), so started using the on board card. No crashes. I missed dual monitors, however, so decided to get a GeForce 210. Seems to work great except for video artifacts. When I run youtube, for instance, on one tag (awesome window manger) , the video is played on all other tags (workspaces). Does this mean the card or pci slot is bad? Bad driver? I'm not a hardware guy, so I might need some hand-holding.

$ lspci

00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
02:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nee Agere Systems nee Lucent Microelectronics FW322/323 (rev 70)

Edit: It seems the video is only duplicated on the black areas of the screen.

Solved: Someone on the ubuntuforums was having the same problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1690285 . Just had to disable hardware acceleration on flash and the problem was solved. Not sure if this is a problem with other programs using hardware acceleration or not. Will post back if still having issues.

Last edited by b1tgl0w (2012-04-26 05:02:19)

iliveinapark

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Registered: 2013-03-18

Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] GeForce 210 Graphics Card | Video Card Artifacts

Gday mate, which drivers did you go with for the GeForce 210? I can't tell if nouveau supports it well, however don't particularly want to go with the 96xx nvidia driver due to incompatibility with newer versions of xorg-server. The opinion of another user would be great