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spookyln

Member

From: Czech Rep

Registered: 2009-02-10

Posts: 39

Old GFX Card

Hi all,
Tomorrow im going install Arch on old crap desktop pc.
Its some Celeron on 2.6GHz with GF4MX440 gfx card.
System memory is only 256MB.

Question is ?
Is possible to install nvidia drivers on current kernel and xorg-server ?
Which drivers ? 173xx or 96xx ? or only nouveau is possible ?
thanks

Gusar

Member

Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Old GFX Card

The only way to truly know is to get the pci-id of the card (lspci -nn) and check with this list: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L … chips.html

But it's highly likely it'll work with the 96xx driver. It's not in Arch currently, but there's AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php? … _Search=Go

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Old GFX Card

You can start with nouveau and switch later https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nv … au_drivers