On 24/09/12 10:42, gladelands wrote:
Hi all,
Has anybody had experience of using nvidia graphics cards with
widescreen (1920 x 1024) monitors under Linux?
I have downloaded nvidias own driver file but it has to run with X
window turned off.
Before I try this is there anything that anybody knows that I should
NOT do whilst trying this?
Regards
George
PS this is a rescued windows machine that I got REALLY cheap
Hi George,
A few of questions:
1. What distro are you using?
2. What card have you got?
3. What monitor(s) are we talking about?
With regard to (1), if you are using any of the Ubuntu variants
installing nVidia drivers is a fairly trivial thing to do, as indeed is
the configuration of most graphics cards and monitors.
With regard to (2), if the machine was that cheap you might find the
graphics card/chip lacks the necessary oomph in terms of GPU and memory
to make this a viable proposition.
As for things to avoid, I think the days are gone when you could drive a
monitor too hard and damage it, unless of course you are using old CRTs,
in which case you might want to wait for a bit more input from someone
who knows what they are talking about before you proceed.
Sean
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