Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M and Fedora 10

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 05:28:33 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> I've installed Fedora 10 on a new laptop with an Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M
> graphics card.  The card will do 1920x1200 resolution however the kmod-nvidia
> driver from rpmfusion doesnt work properly (at least I suspect the
> kmod-nvidia driver to be the issue - however I could be wrong)
>
> Once installed all the queries I can run such as xrand and nvidia-settings
> specify that I'm running at 1920x1200 however I know that's not true - I
> recently had CentOS installed and it (without the kmod-nvidia driver) gave me
> true 1920x1200 and the difference is huge.
>
> So, my hunch is that I'm slightly ahead of the curve per hardware and soon
> enough a driver that works with my video card will come along.  Meanwhile
> I've poked around at the nvidia site for linux drivers and I find that there
> is support for the FX 3700, but not the FX 3700M.
>
> Does anyone know what the difference might be between the FX 3700 and the FX
> 3700 M (Mobile)? I wonder if it would be wise to download and install the FX
> 3700 driver and see if it works ?

177.82 should work fine.



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