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[V.T. Eric Layton]

securitybreach, on 03 August 2012 - 10:58 AM, said:

Here ya go: Linux Mint 13 Maya : sources.list

Even gooder!  

[burninbush]

V.T. Eric Layton, on 03 August 2012 - 11:15 AM, said:

Even gooder!  

Thanks guys, for the clues.  I just copy/pasted the text in the first post of that to /etc/sources.list, reloaded, and now have the stuff I needed.

However, I don't think this apt-get is laid out quite the same as in older versions [?] of synaptic; the few sources it couldn't find were not inside the original sources.list file, it was empty.  Believe that gets built dynamically in this version of Mint from the content of files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d.  After having forced the content, when I started synaptic it complained about two source.list files -- but then it worked well enough.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Mint's GUI package manager may use another sources.list in its own directory somewhere. I think "locate" works in Deb-based distros. You can do the following to find that all copies of that file:

$ sudo updatedb

--> wait a bit...

$ locate sources.list

--> output of all instances of files by that name on your system.

[sunrat]

And back to the original topic - yes I now have a powerful graphics card as of today. It's a new ASUS Nvidia GTX560 Ti with 1GB DDR5. Pretty too, and big. It has a new type of cooler with heat pipes attached directly to the GPU and so far seems to be well exceeding it's claim of being 20% cooler and seems quiet too. $245 was a big outlay for me and the most I've spent on a graphics card ever, but I needed some retail therapy. Of course while I was there I had to pick up a WD Caviar Black 2TB HD and 4GB of HyperX DDR2 RAM. Did you know DDR2 costs about 3 times as much as DDR3?!
Of course a major upgrade couldn't go without some minor niggles. When I first booted the text was appearing at about 3 times previous size and fuzzy. A little searching and I set the new HDMI input on the monitor to "PC" and the fuzz was fixed. Apparently the system was getting incorrect EDID DPI info from the monitor although it was fine with the old VGA input. Manually setting it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf was the solution:-

Section "Device"
		 Identifier	  "Device 0"
		 Driver		  "nvidia"
Option			  "UseEdidDpi" "False"
Option			  "DPI" "82 x 82"
EndSection

I found the correct DPI using the nifty DPI Calculator at http://pxcalc.com/
Lastly the audio was now coming out of the measly monitor speakers instead of the nice big ones. I had to blacklist the driver for the graphics card sound by creating /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with this content:-

blacklist snd-hda-intel

then reset the default card in Phonon and things are almost back to normal.
It wasn't quite this hard in Windows7 but I haven't checked the audio yet. I just downloaded the latest Nvidia driver (160 MB! ), installed and it was OK. Now to install the Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition (with Episodes From Liberty City) that I got from the local game shop on sale for cheap.

[securitybreach]

Great work and very nice graphics card

[crp]

sunrat, on 07 August 2012 - 09:59 AM, said:

[...]I found the correct DPI using the nifty DPI Calculator at http://pxcalc.com/ [...]

Neat , but what does "Follow the white rabbit, Neo." have to do with the calculation?

Edited by crp, 07 August 2012 - 12:11 PM.

[raymac46]

I also upgraded the graphics card in my second desktop that runs Linux only. When I was down in Lancaster PA on the weekend I visited Best Buy and they had clearance pricing on a Galaxy Nvidia GT440. I picked one up and replaced the older 8400GS card I had in the desktop. I notice about 2.5X the original framerate in GLXgears (although it's still modest.) The WebGL performance is improved and the whole machine seems quite snappy indeed. This is on an older Athlon 64 X2 processor with 2 GB of RAM.
I am not a gamer so I'm happy. Resolution and clarity are excellent.