Kayaker Magic

My Ubuntu system is a motherboard with an nvidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 chipset on it. (256meg of memory). I was hoping that this small-format system would be adequate for SL. To answer a prevous question YES I am running the closed-source nvidia driver. Running without it is very ugly AND slow. Running with it I get beautiful images, just terrible FPS. There are 3 different versions of the closed source nvidia driver, two with version numbers, one that just says [recomended]. I've heard rumors that I should go back to an older version... I've also heard rumors of people running Linux without a user interface and just running SL from the command line in full screen mode and gettng incredible FPS rates, like 40. How did you (Oleo OHanlon) get an FPS like 60??!!! I'd be happy if I could get it up to 16 or so. So what is the major contrubutor to FPS? The model number of the nvidia chipset? Disabling OS features? More memory in the graphics chipset?

I'm trying out Viewer 2 on Linux. (Ubuntu 10.10). It LOOKS pretty good, but it only runs at 4.5 frames per second! Everything looks like non-physcial motion... Anyone have some hints and tricks for tuning it to run faster? How come I don't hear more about Linux and second life?