Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:50:39PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> SUPPORTED HARDWARE
>        The  nv  driver  supports  PCI, PCI-Express and AGP video cards
>        based on the following NVIDIA chips:
> 
>        RIVA 128              NV3
> 
>        RIVA TNT              NV4
> 
>        RIVA TNT2             NV5
> 
>        GeForce 256, QUADRO   NV10
> 
>        GeForce2, QUADRO2     NV11 & NV15
> 
>        GeForce3, QUADRO DCC  NV20
> 
>        nForce, nForce2       NV1A, NV1F
> 
>        GeForce4, QUADRO4     NV17, NV18, NV25, NV28
> 
>        GeForce FX, QUADRO FX NV30, NV31, NV34, NV35, NV36, NV37, NV38
> 
>        GeForce 6XXX          NV40, NV41, NV43, NV44, NV45, C51
> 
>        GeForce 7XXX          G70, G71, G72, G73
> 
>        GeForce 8XXX          G80, G84, G86, G92

But that would be in the latest version, not the one in Etch of coruse.

Certainly I am quite happy with my nvidia cards, and if 2D is enough,
they are generally reasonably supported.  For 3D you are pretty much
stuck with the binary drivers on nvidia.

-- 
Len Sorensen