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Hello All 2 Points that may be relevant to this thread. NVIDIA driver. I have recently installed an low end NVIDIA Card (MX450). I found the Linux driver on the Nvidia site, Had a read of the instructions and readme etc.. and Installed as per their instructions. This gave no problems at all and all worked fine. Using Red Hat 9.0 on IBM X225 Xeon. IBM sates the Mboard does not support Video Cards in the AGP Slot ??? ( I couldnt work out why they said that.) But all worked perfectly. Hauppage WIN TV Cards BUYER BEWARE . I just bought a WinTV GO Card from PC World (3 Weeks ago). Hauppage have just changed the BT848 chipset on their WinTV Cards. they now use the Connexant CX2388 Chipset. By all accounts this produces better performace. Not under Linux it doesn't. As far as I can find there are no Kernel Driver Modules for this Chipset. One of the SuSe developers has put an Alpha release hack on his site. I could not compile this patch as it requires compilation of a patched Kernel to work. I went back to PC world and took a good look at all the Haupagge stuff to see if I could find an older card with BT chipset. I couldn't. But here's a Tip Hauppage are still using there old boxes, but where they are using the new CX chipset they have put a white label over the original model number with a new model number on it. One presumes if you find a card without this label stuck over the model number then there is a good chance that this will be an older card using the BT848 chipset. If anyone figures how to get the CX2388 chipset working please let me know so I can get my Card up and running Thanks Rick On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 15:48, Keith Abraham wrote:
Googling reveals that others are having problems with
the 5328 release of the Nvida driver. As yet no-one
appears to have a solution.
But I read some great reports about a previous beta
release NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4628=pkg1.run.
{Look in the Linux discussion forum on the Nvidia
site for details and where to download but as always
it is beta so it's at your own risk.}
I've installed it and it's running as I write. Installation
followed my earlier post except that Sax2 was NOT
used at all.
Also fps=1524 (the fastest I've ever had} on my little Vanta
16 MB card.
The real bonus is that it comes with a neat little setup
utility in /usr/bin/nvidia-settings. It provides:
Display adaptor information
XFree86 Colour Correction
XFree86 XVideo Settings
OpenGL Settings
Antialias Settings
Why NVIDIA didn't include this utility in their latest release
beats me.
It's early days but it seems stable after about 3hrs of use
and the screensave doesn't take it out. So fingers
crossed for the next few days!! I'll post again if any
problems arise.
Aside: Apologies if this mail reads disjointedly but my back
is giving me f***.
Keith
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