Nvdia module

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 3/6/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
> >
> > Another question. In Gnome if I go to System - Administration -
> > Display - Hardware - Video Card - Configure
> >
> > I see that the one that is chosen is:
> >
> > nvidia - Vendor supplied driver for nvdia cards
> >
> > while just above I can see:
> >
> > nv - nvidia Riva 128, RIVA TNT, GeForce, Nforce and Quadro cards
> >
> > My card is
> > 256Mb nVidia Quadro FX3500 Graphics Card
> >
> > shouldn't then I be using the "nv" configuration instead of the
> > "nvidia" one?
> >
> The nv configuration is the open source driver. The nvidia
> configuration is the driver supplied by Nvidia. But you may want to
> take a look at http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html to see if
> you should be using the legacy driver instead of nvidia.

No, the FX3500 is definitely supported in 1.0-9746.


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