switch from Matrox G450 to GeForce 6200/6200TC

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Sun Jul 22 17:07:40 UTC 2007


> But I don't see any difference on my desktop. I have a "nvidia" screen when
> I  boot, though.

You shouldn't expect to see any differences, it is after all just a video 
driver ! 

The fact you see the nvidia splash screen means you must be using the nvidia 
driver, so all is OK.

>
> I've tried to find the program you spoke about "glxinfo", but I don't have
> it :
> [fm at celtes2 X11]$ glxinfo
> bash: glxinfo: command not found
> [fm at celtes2 X11]$ locate glxinfo
> [fm at celtes2 X11]$

[root at localhost ~]# yum search glxinfo
Loading "downloadonly" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "kmdl" plugin
251 packages excluded due to repository priority protections



glx-utils.i386                           6.5.2-13.fc7           updates
Matched from:
The glx-utils package provides the glxinfo and glxgears utilities.


so you need to run

 > yum install glx-utils

you could also try running the official nvidia config application

 >  nvidia-settings

Chris




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