teradost
03-14-2007, 11:55 AM
I'm building a desktop for Suse 10.2, Fedora w/ Apache, and Win XP. I am about purchase a eVGA 6800 GS video card, and wanted to see if anyone knew about driver issues (or video card issues in general) with linux.
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teradost 03-14-2007, 11:55 AM I'm building a desktop for Suse 10.2, Fedora w/ Apache, and Win XP. I am about purchase a eVGA 6800 GS video card, and wanted to see if anyone knew about driver issues (or video card issues in general) with linux. SNGX1275 03-14-2007, 12:42 PM It will ship with generic drivers, you'll have to get the real ones from nvidia. There are countless tutorials on how to do this. Probably Here (http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#1) or Here (http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#2) is where you should look. Ad 03-14-2007, 12:42 PM teradost 03-14-2007, 01:52 PM Thanks for the links Nodsu 03-15-2007, 07:07 AM All video cards will Just Work with VESA drivers, so getting it to work is a non-issue. You need to worry about drivers if you want some fancy hardware acceleration or something like a dual-screen setup. |
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