Re: Compositing Problem

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

On 10/19/2016 11:53 PM, Thom Castermans wrote:
> This may be something you already tried, but a friend of mine had this
> issue so
> I am suggesting it anyway.
>
> Are you sure you need the 304.x version of the drivers? If you have a newer
> graphics card, then using this older driver may cause problems. You can
> check
> this by running nvidia-debugdump --list to see your device name and then
> searching for it in this list <http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html>,
> or, probably easier, selecting it on this page
> <http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us>.
>
> You can then search for the Debian package matching the suggested version.
>
> Good luck, video drivers tend to be finicky...
>
> Thom

Complying to check for proper driver.

jimmy@jimmy-1:~$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C61 
[GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] [10de:03d6] (rev a2)

Checking card:  NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a]
(rev a2)
Your card is only supported up to the 304 legacy drivers series.
It is recommended to install the nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver package.
jimmy@jimmy-1:~$

Thanks.
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Jimmy Johnson

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