On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Frank D. wrote: > Onboard video also doesn't stop you from getting > another video card.
I've had motherboards in which it wasn't possible to disable the onboard video. It still allowed adding another videocard, but then created IRQ conflicts. > In what way is an nVidia 8 series GPU "troublesome," to support > under Linux? At the time Joe got the board that blew up the default kernel that came with Ubuntu didn't contain a driver necessary to get the board working under Linux. To install it, he would have had to know how to build an custom kernel [that contained the driver for it] using a *another* system and then how to either build a boot disk or a custom Ubuntu install CD. I consider neither of these things to be common knowledge. > What qualifies as a hefty CPU? Is an X2 5200+ Brisbane "hefty"? When I try to play 1080p on a single 2.8 GHz core it cannot keep up. > > Consider the way that Nvidia drivers currently work -- they're > > periodically split off into separate packages which are then not > > supported, and the newer drivers deprecate older cards. Then > > what happens is that both the Linux kernel and X.org are updated > > such that the old driversthat are no longer supported require > > updating before they will function again. :-/ (I'm currently > > dealing with this problem with several older Nvidia cards, all > > of which are in different states of brokeness.) Repeat that > > cycle a few times and you can understand why having an open > > source driver that others can support is a big deal. And this > > also explains why binary blobs can _never_ fully fit our needs. > > How old are the nVidia cards? I don't have any problem with the > 7-series, 185.14 is the newest driver IIRC, I just installed it. Tell me that again a couple of years from now. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 1 - Linux High Performance Computing Aug 5 - TBD Sept 2 - Linux and HDTV
