Simon Geard wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 16:03 -0700, Arden wrote:
Help! I need some advice. I have just gotten into the blfs-book, so far
I have X running, and a friend gave me a video card, EVGA GeForceMX
4000. Can I get this working? without much trouble?
[snip]
Shouldn't be a problem if you're happy to use the binary-only drivers
from nVidia. No kernel or Xorg recompiling needed - just get run the
installer and edit Xorg.conf to use the right driver (nvidia, not nv).
Note, though, that the binary only driver is not *required* it just
happens to be useful if you want decent performance in 3D games and the
like. Myself, I just use the 'nv' driver in Xorg. If you do use the
NVidia driver make sure to get the latest version as it apparently fixes
a security vulnerability in previous versions (being binary only, noone
but NVidia knows for sure whether it's fixed or not, or whether any
similar vulnerabilities still remain) -
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-October/018833.html
Regards,
Matt.
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