Don't use the 295.40 version of the official nvidia drivers as they can cause serious graphical corruption and crashes due to a bug, especially on older cards ( reference: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4ODc ). I'm running on the beta drivers and those seem to work fine through on my dual 1080p monitors at work.
On 24 September 2012 11:01, Sean Gibbins <s...@funkygibbins.me.uk> wrote: > 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 > > -- > music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: > > www.funkygibbins.me.uk > > > > -- > Next meeting: 2012-10-?? 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell Professional Geek Blog: http://darkliquid.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkliquid Fiction: http://www.protagonize.com/author/darkliquid -- Next meeting: 2012-10-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
