Fedora 9/10 and NVIDIA ?

[Alex Makhlin]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> kevin kempter writes:
>
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>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:50 PM, kevin kempter wrote:
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>>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>>
>>>> kevin kempter writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All;
>>>>> I'm considering the purchase of a Dell 64bit laptop with an 
>>>>> NVIDIA  video card.
>>>>> - Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition X9100 3.06GHz, 1067MHZ, 6M L2  
>>>>> Cache Dual Core (224-3154)
>>>>> - 1GB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M Mobile Precision M6400 Covet (320-7518)
>>>>> Anyone have any thoughts per Fedora 9/10 compatibility, potential  
>>>>> issues, gotcha's, etc ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rather than committing yourself to endlessly screwing around with  
>>>> Nvidia's non-free binary blobs, and all the headaches they bring,  
>>>> why don't you just get one of Dell's Linux-friendly laptops that  
>>>> come with Intel video cards that are supported by x.org right out  
>>>> of the box?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/nseries_nb?s=bsd
>>>>
>>>
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>> <Moved-Response>
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>> Because I'm a database consultant and I need a power-house machine.  
>> The one I'm looking at has 2 internal drives in a RAID config, and I  
>> can max out the memory at 16Gig
>>
>> The Dell box I'm looking at however is certified to work with Red 
>> Hat  (RHEL 5).
>
> If that's the case, and you do not care about 3D graphics, your 
> original choice should be ok. However, those Linux laptops, once you 
> max them out, will not differ much from your first choice. The only 
> important thing for you is to get the correct wireless chipset.
>
> You can use the spec sheets of the Linux laptops to get the 
> recommended wireless hardware, and make sure that your laptop is 
> outfitted with the same chipset.
>
>
> I use an HP laptop with an Nvidia card and I just use the drivers from 
> http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/ and everything works great including the 
> 3D affects.