[plug] nvidia Geforce2 video card

[Adam Hewitt]

On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 16:31 Australia/Perth, Cameron Patrick 
wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:25:03PM +0800, laurance anderson wrote:
>
> | I recently aquired a computer with an ASUS  A7N266-VM motherboard 
> which has an
> | Nvidia Geforce2 onboard video card I have already installed RH9 
> which appears
> | to work OK.
> | I have decided to install Debian 3.0, will Debian 3.0 happly work 
> with a Nvidia
> | Geforce2 video card.
> | If so which chipset do we select during the installation eg; vega, 
> vga ,mga,
> | etc or do we install a Matrox card as I know this works a treat.
>
> The Geforce2 works with the nv driver, although you may need a more
> recent version of Xfree than comes with Debian 3.0 (??).
>
> CP.
>

Yes the 'nv' driver will work, but you will want the 'nvidia' for any 
3d use. You can get an installer from the nvidia website which will 
automagically install the driver for you, or you can download the 
nvidia-kernel-src and the nvidia-glx-src packages and compile them 
youself (which is quite trivial as it just makes you a deb package in 
the end)...its up to you.

Adam.