nVidia Riva TNT2 pro and Compiz?

quarg · 09-10-08, 10:22 PM

hello all, i was wondering if i can get compiz on my old gateway, w/ my nVidia Riva tnt2 pro card, running ubuntu 8.04 right now, it won't load any desktop effects, which use the compiz engine, so i havent bothered downloading it yet, does anyone know if this graphics card will even support desktop effects? it has 16 MB memory. my specs for the rest of the computer are: 1GHZ PIII CPU, 512MB RAM.

biAji · 09-11-08, 12:41 AM

Sadly , I don't think you can do that thing...

**Thunderbird** · 09-11-08, 10:03 AM

First compiz requires the GLX extension 'GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap' which isn't supported on the TNT drivers. Even if it was supported compiz requires a fast videocard and PC to run well. If you want this you need to upgrade. As you are still using a p3 1.0GHz I would upgrade as it isn't that expensive (even if the prices of new hardware are high, even a second hand p4 or a64 would be a nice boost already)

joffe · 09-11-08, 11:10 AM

Compiz runs pretty well with my Geforce4 420 Go which came with my notebook (celebrating five years this september and it has only 32MB of dedicated graphics memory!) As Thunderbird said you should be able to get some really cheap, relatively old graphics card and still be capable of running compiz.

**Thunderbird** · 09-12-08, 04:16 AM

Just a videocard is not enough. Your pc offers more than twice the performance of his old p3. He should invest in a new motherboard + cpu + gpu + mem. Even an integrated one would already be a huge improvement. I think that for about 150 euro you can have a nice combination.

evil_core · 09-12-08, 08:40 PM

If I remember good I was running beryl on 466MHz and TNT2 with XGL. I am not shure about if it was working and performance. I only remember that RENDER composite was too slow on this card to be usable, but it were old times when nvidia introduced composite(not GL one).

09-10-08, 10:22 PM	#1
quarg Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1	nVidia Riva TNT2 pro and Compiz? hello all, i was wondering if i can get compiz on my old gateway, w/ my nVidia Riva tnt2 pro card, running ubuntu 8.04 right now, it won't load any desktop effects, which use the compiz engine, so i havent bothered downloading it yet, does anyone know if this graphics card will even support desktop effects? it has 16 MB memory. my specs for the rest of the computer are: 1GHZ PIII CPU, 512MB RAM.

09-11-08, 12:41 AM	#2
biAji Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 5	Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 pro and Compiz? Sadly , I don't think you can do that thing...

09-11-08, 10:03 AM	#3
Thunderbird Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Netherlands, Europe Posts: 2,105	Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 pro and Compiz? First compiz requires the GLX extension 'GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap' which isn't supported on the TNT drivers. Even if it was supported compiz requires a fast videocard and PC to run well. If you want this you need to upgrade. As you are still using a p3 1.0GHz I would upgrade as it isn't that expensive (even if the prices of new hardware are high, even a second hand p4 or a64 would be a nice boost already)

09-11-08, 11:10 AM	#4
joffe Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 171	Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 pro and Compiz? Compiz runs pretty well with my Geforce4 420 Go which came with my notebook (celebrating five years this september and it has only 32MB of dedicated graphics memory!) As Thunderbird said you should be able to get some really cheap, relatively old graphics card and still be capable of running compiz. __________________ GA-MA790GP-DS4H, ATI Radeon HD3300, AMD Phenom X4 9850, 4GB PC8500 [Ubuntu 8.10] Toshiba 2450-201, GeForce4 420 Go 32MB, Pentium4 2.4GHz, 512 MB PC2700 [Ubuntu 8.10]

09-12-08, 04:16 AM	#5
Thunderbird Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Netherlands, Europe Posts: 2,105	Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 pro and Compiz? Just a videocard is not enough. Your pc offers more than twice the performance of his old p3. He should invest in a new motherboard + cpu + gpu + mem. Even an integrated one would already be a huge improvement. I think that for about 150 euro you can have a nice combination.

09-12-08, 08:40 PM	#6
evil_core Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 27	Re: nVidia Riva TNT2 pro and Compiz? If I remember good I was running beryl on 466MHz and TNT2 with XGL. I am not shure about if it was working and performance. I only remember that RENDER composite was too slow on this card to be usable, but it were old times when nvidia introduced composite(not GL one).