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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Friday, July 7, 2006 11:49:40 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Saturday, October 15, 2005 12:35:38 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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To get the most out of Nvidia graphics cards, you need to download the drivers from [nvidia | http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html]. Because of Nvidia's licencing, these usually can not be included in Linux distributions. Most distros come with the [Free] nv driver. This works well but only provides basic functionality. It doesn't do 3D graphics acceleration, so can not support some games.
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+If you're running Ubuntu you should install the linux-restricted-modules-*-nvidia and nvidia-glx packages, as described on the [Ubuntu wiki|https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia]. If you have an older TNT, TNT2 or GeForce2 card you will want linux-restricted-modules-*-nvidia-legacy and nvidia-glx-legacy packages instead. You might also want the nivdia-settings package which adds things like gamma correction to the control panel, or the nvclock package if you want to try overclocking your graphics card.
!! Preparation
Read the README file available from nvidia, this has lots of good detail on installation and troubleshooting.
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If you use a "vanilla" 2.6.9 LinuxKernel, you will probably need nvidia driver version 1.0-6629 or later. 6111 and 5336 failed to compile against 2.6.9 for me (JohnMcPherson) due to a symbol that is no longer exported to modules by the kernel.
!!Support for older cards
-Sometime in the .7xxx series, nvidia dropped support for TNT,TNT2 and older GeForce2 cards from their unified driver. These
have been moved
to a separate
"legacy" driver, although these are difficult to find on their website
. In Ubuntu 5
.10 ("Breezy"), you can install the <tt>
linux-restricted-modules-2.6
.12
-9
-386
-nvidia
-legacy</tt> package to get a pre-compiled module that works with the default packaged kernel. This will only work if you have apt configured to get packages from the "restricted" section of the breezy repository.
+Sometime in the .7xxx series, nvidia dropped support for TNT,TNT2 and older GeForce2 cards from their unified driver. If you have one of these cards you
have to use
a [
"legacy" driver |http://www
.nvidia
.com/object/
linux_display_ia32_1.
-7174
.html]
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