| Darxus on Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:00:08 -0400 |
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On 10/09, John McElroy wrote: > Darxus, as I recall from a posting a month or so ago, you installed a new nvidia GeForce3 video card into a debian machine. Did you have any difficulties? Could you please briefly describe what was required. At the time, I noticed that the release I was using (stable) did not have current nvidia drivers, so I downloaded the source tarballs from their site (well, partially binary), and followed the simple directions in them. That's all. I have since had it pointed out to me that there are current nvidia drivers in debian unstable, and it would be better to grab those. > I'm asking because I've put together a new pc and am having trouble with X under debian using the ATI Radeon 8500LE video card. I was hoping that maybe I could get a little insight into what was required for the GeForce to apply it to the Radeon. > > If anyone else has set up debian to use the 8500LE or any other ATI Radeon video card, please provide a few tips. > > I know ATI has posted Linux 'drivers' for the 8500LE, which I've tried but have been unable to make work at all. The included documentation was not very helpful (to me anyway). That's why I bought Nvidia. While Nvidia releases binary only drivers, and not source drivers, they do release drivers. ATI releases specs so that fully GPLed source drivers can be written, which is excellent, but they don't release their own drivers. So it takes longer for them to happen. I don't think the 8500 is fully supported under Linux yet, for these reasons. -- "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolution Leader http://www.ChaosReigns.com Attachment:
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