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andante

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Registered: 2010-03-25

Posts: 7

Setting up Arch with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M video card

Hi everyone,

I'm new to Arch (after Ubuntu for about a year) and have been having with the speed of my computer, which I think is related to my video card.

I have tried configuring the card using both the nvidia + nvidia-utils and nvidia-173xx + nvidia-173xx-utils, but the redraw on my screen is a bit slow. I sometimes see a trail of windows when I move them, certain windows take long to resize, high-resolution videos are choppy, and scrolling on websites is not always smooth. Gnome also crashes with compiz while doing things like changing workspace (using desktop-wall).

The options mentioned in the [wiki]NVIDIA[/wiki] wiki, like renderaccel, don't seem to help. I generally use Gnome with either compiz or metacity, and the same problem exists in LXDE.

Thanks

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: Setting up Arch with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M video card

Have you followed all the steps for installation here:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia

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andante

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Registered: 2010-03-25

Posts: 7

Re: Setting up Arch with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M video card

Yes, I followed those steps, though I had to make a guess as to which driver to use because the NVIDIA page says my card is not yet supported. I tried both of the more recent ones. However, I had better video performance on Ubuntu so I know I'm doing something wrong.

Flasher

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From: Bavaria / Germany

Registered: 2005-04-24

Posts: 126

Re: Setting up Arch with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M video card

Hello!

I'm using the same card as you:

lspci:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98M [Quadro NVS 160M] (rev a1)

I'm using the arch kernel: kernel26 + nvidia + nvidia-utils

My Xorg.conf:
65 Section "Device"
66
67     Identifier                              "Nvidia Quadro NVS 160M"
68     VendorName                                  "Nvidia Corporation"
69     Boardname                       "Quadro NVS 160M"
70     Driver                                      "nvidia"
71     Option "NoLogo"                 "true"
72     Option "DPI"                    "96 x 96"
73

Best regards,

Flasher