I have tried a few other distros and I found that Fedora worked with
Nvida, but I didnt really like Fedora and decided on slack. Does anyone
know off hand if it works with Nvida (from chipset, to graphics card)

Thanks,
Lance

lancey3@gmail.com wrote:
> I have tried a few other distros and I found that Fedora worked with
> Nvida, but I didnt really like Fedora and decided on slack. Does anyone
> know off hand if it works with Nvida (from chipset, to graphics card)

ad. topic: does, it's not distribution case.. it depends on kernel
*search* archives.

brk

lancey3@gmail.com wrote:
> I have tried a few other distros and I found that Fedora worked with
> Nvida, but I didnt really like Fedora and decided on slack. Does
anyone
> know off hand if it works with Nvida (from chipset, to graphics card)

Yes, it does. Put in /etx/X11/xorg.conf:

Sectin "Device"
Identifier "SomeGForce"
Driver "nv"
EndSection

--
Mikhail

lancey3@gmail.com wrote:
> I have tried a few other distros and I found that Fedora worked with
> Nvida, but I didnt really like Fedora and decided on slack. Does anyone
> know off hand if it works with Nvida (from chipset, to graphics card)
>
> Thanks,
> Lance
>

The nVidia drivers are distribution agnostic, although you may have
to have the kernel sources installed. If you want just 2d graphics use
the "nv" driver as per a previous post. If you want 3d acceleration
grab the driver *.run file from nvidia.com, run it as root and install
the drivers (trivial) and use the "nvidia" driver instead.

Works like a charm.


--------------------------------------------
John Bleichert - syborg@earthlink.net
"Conclamatum est, poculatum est"

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On 17 Feb 2005 06:04:35 -0800, lancey3@gmail.com wrote:
> I have tried a few other distros and I found that Fedora worked with
> Nvida, but I didnt really like Fedora and decided on slack. Does anyone
> know off hand if it works with Nvida (from chipset, to graphics card)
>

The NVidia driver works out of the box pretty much with the stock
Slackware install, but if you use the optional 2.6.x kernel you
might have to grab a patch or two to build the NVidia driver/or get
it to load. Once done, it works fine.

(Using the NVidia-6629 driver with X11R6.8.2 and kernel-2.6.10 on my
laptop which has the GeForce FX Go 5200 card at 1600x1200
resolution)

Brad


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Thanks

On 2005-02-17, break <somebody@somewhere.pl.nospam> espoused the following:
> lancey3@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have tried a few other distros and I found that Fedora worked with
>> Nvida, but I didnt really like Fedora and decided on slack. Does anyone
>> know off hand if it works with Nvida (from chipset, to graphics card)
>
> ad. topic: does, it's not distribution case.. it depends on kernel
> *search* archives.
>
Mostly true. Some distros make it more difficult though, by not including
certain key components. When Mepis first came out, I recall that being an
issue.

Scott


--
Only trust pipesmoking penguins.

Lance wrote:
> Thanks
>

fwiw, i used the patches listed at
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=42964 to get version
6629 running under 10.1 (kernel 2.6.10), and it works fine.

On 17 Feb 2005 06:04:35 -0800, lancey3@gmail.com wrote:

> I have tried a few other distros and I found that Fedora worked with
> Nvida, but I didnt really like Fedora and decided on slack. Does anyone
> know off hand if it works with Nvida (from chipset, to graphics card)

sure, nvidia, ati, you name it.

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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:26:01 +1030, Shannon Lloyd wrote:
>
> fwiw, i used the patches listed at
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=42964 to get version
> 6629 running under 10.1 (kernel 2.6.10), and it works fine.

I used the ones from http://www.minion.de/files/1.0-6629/ but as
long as they work.

Brad

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