I am running an Nvidia GeForce4 MX4000 (if that is the right alphabet soup) on a Via chipset. No
problems, equivalent 3D performance in Linux and Windows.
Even that GeForce2 MX-400 will give quite decent performance. I can't speak to your motherboard
though, I'm edging towards the unhelpful "throw out that doorstop" or at least "repurpose that
doorstop". If you are really interested in doing anything with OpenGL or games, that is.
Just trying to give my honest assessment and confirm that yes, Nvidia works great with Linux
(depending on your other hardware >:) )
-Max
Neil Parker wrote:
Is anyone out there successfully using an Nvidia video card with Linux?
On a couple of occasions (most recently just a few days ago) I've been
given old Nvidia cards to try in my computer, and the givers usually
assure me that they're much more powerful and much better supported than
the 3Dfx card I'm currently using.
However, I've never been able to get one to work. They usually manage OK
in text mode, but when I install Nvidia's drivers for X, they invariably
become ridiculously unstable. One previous card wouldn't show any pixels
at all, a second showed the right display but with lots of ugly smearing
and frequent core dumps in GL applications, and the most recent managed to
completely lock up my kernel.
In the meanwhile, the 3Dfx card is humming along quite happily with nary a
hiccup.
So what's going wrong? Is Nvidia's driver buggy? Is it possible that
Nvidia cards don't like my motherboard?
I was using the latest driver from Nvidia's web site. My motherboard is a
Jetway J-542C with an ALi M1541 chipset. The cards were an Nvidia
Vanta/TNT2M64, a Riva TNT2 64, and a GeForce2 MX-400. The X server is
6.7.0 from X.org, running on Linux kernel 2.4.29, with glibc 2.3.2.
Any advice (other than "throw out that doorstop and get a computer")?
- Neil Parker
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