Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What settings for nVidia G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] video card?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:40:50
Message-Id: 201006100240.30734.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What settings for nVidia G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] video card? by Walter Dnes
1 Walter Dnes writes:
2
3 > I'm converting an older Dell E521 AMD K8 machine from XP to Gentoo.
4 > I intend to use it with an HDHomerun ATSC tuner, for recording and
5 > playback. I don't know if it supports AGP, but I am including... <*>
6 > AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support
7 > <*> NVIDIA nForce/nForce2 chipset support
8 > ...in the kernel.
9 >
10 > I notice there are both "nv" and "nvidia" drivers available. Which
11 > one do I use? Also, are there any special settings in xorg.conf to
12 > watch for?
13
14 Have a look at the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide:
15 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
16
17 Wonko