Nvdia module
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Mar 6 17:15:52 UTC 2007
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.
Mikkel
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