Recommendation for FC9 graphics card

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri May 23 20:14:34 UTC 2008


Luke Sheldrick wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23/05/2008 00:11, "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>     What's wrong with using the NVidia Legacy drivers?  They still work with
>     the older cards that are no longer supported by the bleeding edge NVidia
>     drivers.  I'm still using the 96xx drivers with my MX-400 card on F8.
>     F9 may have other problems, 2.6.25 is a problem in general as the
>     proprietary drivers struggle to catch up with the API changes in the new
>     kernels.

> Did you manage to get dual-head to work?

No, I'm not (yet) using dual head.  I'm using them for the 3D support 
for MythTV.

> What drivers were you using? The ones from nvidia, or nv..etc?

NVidia from Livna but on F8.  I did notice that F9 versions had been 
released however.  My F9 machine has an ATI graphics card.

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Kevin J. Cummings
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