-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave, your graphics card is actually an nVidia 8600 GT. > > Asus is merely the assembler.
To be perfectly pedantic about it, Asus is the card manufacturer. The chip (aka "GPU") is made by Nvidia. :) > As far as I can ascertain, this card is reported to work out of the box > with Gutsy Gibbon, the previous release of Ubuntu so one can reasonably > assume that it will also work in Hardy. Nvidia GeForce 8600 based cards will work fine with both the Linux frame buffer and the "nv" free/open source driver bundled with Xorg. This will give you full speed 2D hi-colour graphics "out of the box" without any manual configuration. If you also want hardware accelerated 3D (eg: OpenGL acceleration), you will need to install the non-free "nvidia-glx-new" package (which show up in Xorg as the drivers labelled "nvidia") from the "restricted" repository. The Ubuntu proprietary driver manager (which is started automatically when you first log in to a default Ubuntu install) will automatically suggest these drivers and download/install them if you wish. - -Dan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIQjDHeFJDv0P9Qb8RAsvNAKCkiTlKIRITZPNlPCwsuePTVTm44gCfTc7c 3gEEJdAlFvnMmwFsIS0M7fM= =KVr6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
