Hi this blog is mainly so I don't forget what NVidia driver settings work best in my aging Cyrix 233MHz PC. It is for personal reference and may not give the same results on your own PC but you are welcome to try.
1) Download drivers (www.nvidia.com) the 1.0-9xxx Series works best with my card (but make sure you chooose the best for your own card , my system really crawls and crashes if I use the 1.0-7xxx Series and the 100.xxx just won't work.
2) Install as per NVidia readme file (Note need kernel sources, headers and C compliler installed, if short on disk space, like me then can remove them again after the installation is completed.
3) Xorg.conf settings (IMPORTANT backup xorg.conf first!!!!!)
Section "Device"
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Option "HWcursor" "True"
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#Make the Graphics card draw the mouse, not the CPU.
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Option "CursorShadow" "True"
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#No performance increase just adds a shadow to your mouse pointer
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Option "NoLogo" "True"
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#Some think X loads quicker without the nvidia logo
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Option "RenderAccel" "True"
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#Speeds up 2D accellated graphics.
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Option "NvAgp" "1"
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#Use the NVidia AGP driver - Depends on your system, seems to work for some and not for others
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Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP, TV"
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#turn off devices you don't have, in mycase I'm not using the TV function and I don't have a LCD monitor
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Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
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#Specify what you do have... and old CRT screen for me. Doing this is supposed to speed up the time X takes to start as it doesn't have to probe your hardware.
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# Standard settings required by Xorg are below this comment (wouldn't play with these unless you have to and know what you are doing)
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Identifier "Card0"
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Driver "nvidia"
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VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
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BoardName "NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x]"
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EndSection
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