[arch-general] which video card driver- proprietary...
I have a GeForce 7600 GS. I do not know which command to run because I do not know which driver to use. Should I use nvidia-96xx or nvidia-173xx or nvidia ? Thanks.
You could search for which models each driver supports, and try the one(s)
that support yours. Use whichever works best and just uninstal what you
don't use.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Preston C.
I have a GeForce 7600 GS. I do not know which command to run because I do not know which driver to use. Should I use nvidia-96xx or nvidia-173xx or nvidia ? Thanks.
I have a GeForce 7600 GS. I do not know which command to run because I do not know which driver to use. Should I use nvidia-96xx or nvidia-173xx or nvidia ? Thanks. I am thinking it is the 173xx, but wanted to be sure. It does not tell me exactly in the Beginners Guide or the Nvidia page in the wiki. The reason I think it may be the 173xx is because in the beginners guide it says:
1. nvidia-96xx slightly newer cards up to the GF 4. 2. nvidia-173xx Geforce FX series cards 3. nvidia newest GPUs after the GF FX Where I get confused is if my card is after the FX cards or not? Because the box my card came in does not say if it is FX. It is fairly newer though because it is a 7 series card. Thanks.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:38:15PM -0500, Preston C. wrote:
I have a GeForce 7600 GS. I do not know which command to run because I do not know which driver to use. Should I use nvidia-96xx or nvidia-173xx or nvidia ? Thanks.
nvidia (kernel module) and nvidia-utils. These are the latest drivers for the newer cards.
nvidia (kernel module) and nvidia-utils. These are the latest drivers for the newer cards.
While my card was released in the past 3-4 years, it seems, I do not know if it would fall under the new category. That is why I am thinking of going with 173xx driver. Just don't know what to do? Thanks.
So I tried the command "pacman -S nvidia" and it said that nvidia-utils conflicts with libgl. Then is asked me if I wanted to remove libgl? Any help here is appreciated.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:36:45 -0500
"Preston C."
So I tried the command "pacman -S nvidia" and it said that nvidia-utils conflicts with libgl. Then is asked me if I wanted to remove libgl? Any help here is appreciated. Say 'yes'. nvidia-utils provides libgl.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:27:41PM -0500, Preston C. wrote:
nvidia (kernel module) and nvidia-utils. These are the latest drivers for the newer cards.
While my card was released in the past 3-4 years, it seems, I do not know if it would fall under the new category. That is why I am thinking of going with 173xx driver. Just don't know what to do? Thanks.
173xx is for the GeForce FX (5xxx) series; your card is newer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units See also: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us or: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Thanks Alessandro. Do you know if I should remove libgl for the nvidia-utils ?
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:43:11 -0500, "Preston C."
Thanks Alessandro. Do you know if I should remove libgl for the nvidia-utils ?
Yes you should remove libgl for nvidia-utils. From my understanding both nvidia and ati provide their own libgl libraries, thus the conflict. BTW you should probably search the forums and then post you questions on the forums and not the mailing lists (http://bbs.archlinux.org)
Thanks pyther. The forums do seem to be more active.
Hello Preston, here you have :) http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/appendix-a....) http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/180.29/README/appendix-a.htm...) and legacy is for AGP cards... cyaa
participants (6)
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Alessandro Doro
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Cristian Wilgenhoff
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Preston C.
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pyther
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Zack
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Øyvind Heggstad