Linux and video card drivers

[quizzelsnatch]

Is it hard to install nVIDIA graphics card drivers on Linux. I'm building a new computer and it's going to have a 6600GT/6800 in it and I was just wondering if it is a real PITA to install the drivers on fedora/debian?

 

[Nothinman]

No

 

[n0cmonkey]

The instructions appear to be pretty good.

 

[drag]

You may want to check, sometimes nvidia's propriatory drivers don't have support for the very newest cards. The last driver release was nov. 5 and it added support for the 6600/6600gt and Quadro FX 4000 SDI

But you shouldn't be buying the latest and the greatest anyways. WAY too expensive. Wait a couple months and buy 2 for the price of one. 😉

 

[alm4rr]

before tryin a distro i go to their support sites and look up the forum for vid card support and there are always like 50+ threads on how no one can get ATI drivers to work correctly 🙁

 

[Nothinman]

before tryin a distro i go to their support sites and look up the forum for vid card support and there are always like 50+ threads on how no one can get ATI drivers to work correctly

That's because ATI's driver writers are a bunch of tools.

 

[uOpt]

Should be pretty straightforward. Just make sure you have proper kernel sources installed if you don't have a common distribution kernel.

Nvidia also has a Forum if you run into trouble:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulleti....php?s=&forumid=14

I never had any problems, in fact I am amazed how well and reliable they work and how flexible the wrapper is. The only major broken thing I have seen so far was 2.6.9 Linux/kernel.org and the NVidia release at the time. Fixed by now.

 

[alm4rr]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

before tryin a distro i go to their support sites and look up the forum for vid card support and there are always like 50+ threads on how no one can get ATI drivers to work correctly

That's because ATI's driver writers are a bunch of tools.

no argument here