Antialiasing (and others settings) in Nvidia-settings ineffective

[rahan12]

Hi Guys,

First of all I would like to congratulate all of you and MrMeee for this brilliant effort on helping the Linux community to use their discrete graphics cards.

I've tried both BumbleBee and IronHide and got both of them working... but in both case I cannot get any of the antialiasing settings available in nvidia-settings to work?
I always look the same (which is to say ugly and pixelised) whatever settings I use.

As anyone managed yet to get these antialiasing settings to work?

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04-64bits on a Dell XPS l502x with a nvidia GT525m.

Any help appreciated... even if the solution is a super long winded painstaking way!
Thanks.

[Lekensteyn]

See http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=105778, if you want to control anti-aliasing for fonts, you need to configure it at System Settings, not nvidia settings.

[rahan12]

Thanks for your reply but I'm not particularly needing the anti-aliasing for the fonts (although your answer might come handy some day) but rather for all the graphics (2d and 3D).
I'm running an opengl application that I developed and that is destined for multi-touchscreens.
At the minute all my graphics (which I've spent ages making look nice) look rather ugly and pixelised.

But if I run that exact same program on my production machine (a desktop with a single nvidia card) which as pretty much the same configuration, everything works great.
Any other advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers.

[Samsagax]

try something like:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/nvidia/library/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH nvidia-settings -c :8

with the second X server running

[starks]

On 11/25/2011 07:00 PM, rahan12 wrote:

Hi Guys,

First of all I would like to congratulate all of you and MrMeee for this brilliant effort on helping the Linux community to use their discrete graphics cards.

I've tried both BumbleBee and IronHide and got both of them working... but in both case I cannot get any of the antialiasing settings available in nvidia-settings to work?
I always look the same (which is to say ugly and pixelised) whatever settings I use.

As anyone managed yet to get these antialiasing settings to work?

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04-64bits on a Dell XPS l502x with a nvidia GT525m.

Any help appreciated... even if the solution is a super long winded painstaking way!
Thanks.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee#166
You're expecting far too much. The card isn't that good to begin with
and VirtualGL only processes GLX calls. Your best bet is to control
antialiasing from within the software/game you are trying to run.

[rahan12]

@Samsagax

I've tried what you suggested to no avail but I might not be pointing to the right library. Which library do you mean> libGL.so?

Here is what I did:
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH nvidia-settings -c :8
But that didn't change anything.

@LLStarks
When I try to control the antialiasing from within my program that doesn't work either.
So are you basically saying that there is no way to get the antialiasing settings to work?

[Lekensteyn]

@rahan12: LD_LIBRARY_PATH should point to the directory containing the nvidia libraries which is just /usr/lib/nvidia-current.

If the closed-source nvidia drivers do not work, you could try the opensource nouveau driver. Unfortunately, the one packaged by Ubuntu is very old so you have to build it yourself (I have yet to try it)

[ArchangeGabriel]

We released the new 3.0 version of Bumblebee, informations available here : http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/2012/01/bumblebee-version-30-tumbleweed-release.html.

Since they have been a lot of changes, most issues are outdated, so please try the new version and report issues on the new tracker.