Jo Shields wrote:
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:49 +0000, A J Stiles wrote:On Tuesday 08 Apr 2008, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Please define "most". (That's the driver I'm using on my machine at work, which is fitted with an older nVidia card.) I want to be certain that whatever I buy will work correctly with 100% Free software.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
The nv driver is "alleged" to work with 7000-series cards, but it has issues on my systems with a 7800 GT and typically, an nforce 4 chipset Asus motherboard. I have never successfully gotten it to work in that combination. The vesa driver works, but...meh. I choose to use the Nvidia closed driver because it works well and has few hassles. I have no reason to believe than Nvidia will cripple that driver in the future. I will worry about that problem when it happens. Until then, I'm happy.
GeForce 8XXX G80, G84, G86, G92
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