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I have an old machine which used nvidia-96xx. I am planning to go open source on it since the machine is so old, that it can hardly do any of the higher end graphics anyway.
The card on the machine is
lspci | grep VGA
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11[GeForce2 Go] (rev b2)
I was wondering what driver I can use. All I need is that the machine should run basic movie videos. I don't do games or flash on it ..simply because the machine just cannot handle it.
Would the nouveau be applicable or should I just use a vesa driver? I looked up the nouveau chart matrix, but it didn't list my card explicitly
I checked this link It mentions NV11 -- but the actual name is GeForce2 MX
so I am not a 100 %.
Thanks in advance.
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Bah !!
I found this a minute too late. I am just gonna try the nouveau driver and see how things work out.
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Only question, I have now is, that a bunch of apps require libgl which is provided by nvidia-96xx-utils.
Would it be safe to install libgl an remove nvidia-96xx-utils?
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I have libgl 7.8.2-1 installed with the Nouveau driver.
It is required by libva mesa mplayer qt xine-lib xorg-server xorg-utils.
It runs without problem on my machine.
But I have a NV40 Nvidia graphical integreted chipset not a NV11 one.
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Only question, I have now is, that a bunch of apps require libgl which is provided by nvidia-96xx-utils.
Would it be safe to install libgl an remove nvidia-96xx-utils?
Of course: nvidia-utils conflicts with libgl because it provides its own libgl, so if you choose to go nouveau, you actually need to replace it.
BTW, since your card is NV11, from NV10 family (as per http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames), the support status seems good: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix
My personal experience with my dad's pc that has an NV25, from NV20 family which has an almost equal support status, is very good: he didn't even notice i changed the drivers...
Last edited by lucak3 (2010-08-26 10:24:24)
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