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From: J.O. Aho on 17 Jan 2010 12:40 Yousuf Khan wrote: > J.O. Aho wrote: >> I do suggest you disable the onboard AMD graphics card, the closed source >> nVidia driver may disable features like CUDA/PhysX, but that may not >> be an >> issue with a 8600. >> If you want to use the onboard graphics too, you are more or less >> better off >> using VESA driver (not sure the ati/radeon driver does support HD >> 4200) for it >> than the AMD driver, as far as I remember the AMD and nVidia closed >> source >> drivers don't play well together. > > > No, I will use the discrete card for everyday usage, but I expect during > initial setup that I'll be keeping things simple, and just use the > onboard until things stabilize elsewhere. This may cause you more problems. I would advice against this. > I remember when the older motherboard was new, I was using its onboard > video (Geforce 6100-class) before I got the discete card (Geforce > 8600-class). When I installed the discrete card, I expected that it > would just pick up the existing Nvidia drivers for 6100, since they were > both Nvidia. There are actually 3 different nvidia drivers, where support for different cards has been discontinued, so if you use driver with support for gf2, then you have a driver without support for gf8. Now you are going to use the same graphics card, so no difference in driver needed. -- //Aho
From: dennis on 17 Jan 2010 12:42 "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4b533b8d$1(a)news.bnb-lp.com... > dennis(a)home wrote: >> However there are compiled in options that could break a linux system if >> they have been used by the OP. >> Its unlikely and they probably wouldn't be asking such simple questions >> if they had. > > That is part of the question, are there any compiled in options in the > standard Ubuntu distro kernel that I will have to worry about? For example > for the chipset. I remember from the old days of Linux that most drivers > were compiled in, and now they are mostly run-time loaded; but are there > still any holdovers left that are only compiled in? Not unless you have put them in AFAIK.
From: Ignoramus15099 on 17 Jan 2010 13:06 On 2010-01-17, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > dennis(a)home wrote: >> However there are compiled in options that could break a linux system if >> they have been used by the OP. >> Its unlikely and they probably wouldn't be asking such simple questions >> if they had. > > That is part of the question, are there any compiled in options in the > standard Ubuntu distro kernel that I will have to worry about? For > example for the chipset. I remember from the old days of Linux that most > drivers were compiled in, and now they are mostly run-time loaded; but > are there still any holdovers left that are only compiled in? There are some drivers that are not compiled in by default; those tend to be experimental or incomplete drivers. i
From: Steve Urbach on 17 Jan 2010 13:36 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:25:08 -0500, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: >Steve Urbach wrote: >> If your old rig was... really Old, there might have been /work-around's/ set >> that are less efficient than what you would see with a fresh install. >> That is what I find amazing about Ubuntu.. It mostly just works >> whereas Windows mostly does not work without lots of futzing with drivers. >> YMMV > >The old rig had an Nvidia Nforce 430 chipset with Geforce 6100-class >integrated video. The one one is an ATI 785G chipset with HD 4200-class >integrated video. The discreet video will remain Nvidia 8600GT for the >moment. > > Yousuf Khan Ubuntu has survived the
From: Steve Urbach on 17 Jan 2010 13:39
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:25:08 -0500, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: >Steve Urbach wrote: >> If your old rig was... really Old, there might have been /work-around's/ set >> that are less efficient than what you would see with a fresh install. >> That is what I find amazing about Ubuntu.. It mostly just works >> whereas Windows mostly does not work without lots of futzing with drivers. >> YMMV > >The old rig had an Nvidia Nforce 430 chipset with Geforce 6100-class >integrated video. The one one is an ATI 785G chipset with HD 4200-class >integrated video. The discreet video will remain Nvidia 8600GT for the >moment. > > Yousuf Khan Ubuntu has survived the swapping out of a Nvidia 6800 for a ATI based Graphics. All I had to do was boot in recovery mode and run the "Fix X server" section. |