[SOLVED] Everything seems sluggish

[donaldfarkas]

Ok i got a Dell vostro 1700 2.4dual core with 3gb ram.
moving windows resizing them feels very slow and choppy same with when im watching a movie full screen is very choppy unwatchable. In firefox typing and scrolling down the page is realy slow. I installed the nvidia drivers from the Synaptic i got an nvidia 8600M 256mb video card.

The things that lead me to believe that its the video driver are...

• When i click on System>Preferences> Appearance>Visual Effects when i try to change the settings for visual effects I get an error message " Visual Effects could not be enabled".

• Since I have installed the nvidia driver I click System>Preferences> NVIDIA X server settings i get an error message "You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file(just run 'nvidia-xconfig' as root), and restart the X server. When i ran this

  root@donald-laptop:~# nvidia-xconfig
  
  Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
  
  VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
                    Device section "Configured Video Device" must have a Driver
                    line.
  
  Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
  New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

so when i entered what you see in the code above my video crashes after i restart and i have to load generic drivers to be able to get into X server.
Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

[reed9]

Try reconfiguring the xserver.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Restart X, and then use the nvidia-xconfig tool.

[donaldfarkas]

Try reconfiguring the xserver.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Restart X, and then use the nvidia-xconfig tool.

ok i tried

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

and i restarted the bye ctrl+alt+f2 then using the command
$sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
$sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

The error message that comes up is.. "The specified display number was busy, sothis server was started on display :1.
Im guessing it is supposed to b display :0.

[donaldfarkas]

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)

[donaldfarkas]

i fixed my problem my reinstalling ubuntu and the first thing i did was download driver from nvidia website and reinstalled it then it worked perfectly and its going good now