Re: installing nvidia driver for pci express 6600GT?
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 12:38pm, A E Lawrence wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:41:20PM +0200, Alexander Fieroch wrote:
> >>I didn't get the geforce 6600GT to work with xfree86 so I have installed
> >>xorg but the nvidia driver is not found too.
> >
> > I suggest going back to xfree86 and following the README in the
> > nvidia-kernel-source package. It seems to work for most people,
> > although it may be that PCIe is a problem (although I have seen people
> > say they have it working on A8N-SLI boards which are PCIe as well).
>
> I have already confirmed that a 6600GT PCIe clone works fine with
> xfree86 and the nvidia driver: that is indeed on an Asus A8N-SLI.
Thanks Lawrence, if you have access to that machine could you show us what
lspci -vv shows for the video card? Does the output mention a "capability"
related to PCIe, or is it like Alexander's output from the earlier post?
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