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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia card swap
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:52:08
Message-Id: 200701211546.45833.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] nvidia card swap by James
1 On Sunday 21 January 2007 02:49, James wrote:
2 > hello,
3 >
4 > I have a system using this card:
5 > "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
6 >
7 > and I want to use this card:
8 > "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
9 >
10 > to hopefully get more perfomance on 3D applications.
11 >
12 > Can I just swap the hardware or do I have to edit
13 > (xorg.conf) and recompile some software, such as
14 > xorg-server ?
15 >
16 >
17 > ideas?
18
19 just replace them. If you have not done anything stupid in xorg.conf,
20 everything will work.
21
22 About the drivers: even the legacy drivers can drive the 5200 so there is no
23 need to do anything.
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