Re: [OT] Nvidia 9746 driver
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On 01/27/07 11:03, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:02 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The upward pressure continues:
>>
>> Nvidia's 9746 driver released December 21, 2006 no longer supports my
>> MX440 + MX4000 cards
>>
>> You are being driven to get boards with PCI Express slots and buy faster
>> videocards. I found the FX5200 is still supported, which is fanless and
>> PCI, but costs $60.- That's more than double the MX4000.
>
> Any GeForce 4 or derived cards from that chipset has been deprecated by
> nVidia a while ago.
>
> The only reason you see these cards around still is "back stock". Many
> card manufacturers have had to dump these chipsets. Evidence is the
> price.
>
> I personally have been hit by this 3 times now. I have NV11, NV15 and
> NV17 chipset... Lotsa fun. FX5200's chipset is the bottom set now.
>
> Anyway, it you are going to start complaining about this, start looking
> at the OpenDesktop nVidia driver (not sure of the name, Rendition?).
Or give up 3D acceleration and use the nv driver.
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