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undergroundx

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Registered: 2009-09-23

Posts: 22

Are these the right drivers?

Hello  am new to Arch and just got the repo"s and everything working, Im following th Beginners guide and ive come to the part where i must configure my graphics card.  when i ran

lspci  |  grep VGA

this was my output

nVidia Corperation NV28GL [Quadro 980 XGL [rev al]

I was looking through the list of drivers it has to offer but i dont want to install the wrong one in chance of screwing up my system.

I went to the Nvidia site and found this

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_disp … 43.13.html

It is the driver for the card, im not sure if i need that driver or not. Or if there is a driver on the beginners page list

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … mirrorlist

that i could use.

If i do need that driver for the Quadro card, Do i follow the steps on the nvidia page or how should i go about doing that?

Thanks for any help

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: Are these the right drivers?

You can just install the driver in Arch's repos with "pacman -S nvidia". That's the same driver you would get from the Nvidia site, only neatly packaged for Arch.

undergroundx

Member

Registered: 2009-09-23

Posts: 22

Re: Are these the right drivers?

oh okay, thank you

stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: Are these the right drivers?

the beginner's guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide

has a detailed section on installing and configuring your graphical environnement

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