NVidia Beefing up Linux Support

Matt G linux at bizniche.com
Fri Apr 11 21:13:48 CDT 2003


I tried this out on my laptop the other day.  It's got a GForce4 go card (or
whatever the official name is) and it worked like a charm.

Literally took less than 2 minutes for the whole process.  Next think you
know I'm playing TuxRacer like a champ.:)

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: <paul at kcnetcare.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 2:07 PM
Subject: NVidia Beefing up Linux Support

> I remember a month or two ago some people discussing fast computers and
> video cards but Linux GUI ran slow. Maybe this will help...
>
> Thunderbird writes "NVIDIA once again released new Linux drivers. This
> release seems to fix the slow 2D problems of 1.0-4191, next it contains
> official GeforceFX/QuadroFX support and the last new feature is a new
> install/update tool for installing the drivers on [any distribution].
>
> Download the drivers from
> here:http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_displ ay_ia32_1.0-4349"
>
> NVIDIA has officially moved away from RPMs and the new setup utility is
> awesome and makes driver installation painless on any distribution. Not
> only that. the utility can keep your driver up-to-date when ran on a
> regular basis. Go check it out. We will have a full review of this release
> coming up very soon. (Read: Hopefully by this evening.)
>
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