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geekinthesticks

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[solved] Driver for Nvidia ION Card

I have an Acer Aspire Revo which according to lspci has:

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation ION VGA (rev b1)

Looking through the Wiki and the nVidia site, I am not sure which of the various drivers are for this card. The nVidia site takes me to a page "GEFORCE R320 GAME READY DRIVER". Has anyone got one of these and if so which driver are you using?

Last edited by geekinthesticks (2013-08-13 07:44:43)

graysky

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Re: [solved] Driver for Nvidia ION Card

You have two options to try: nvidia and nvidia-304xx.  Try the nvidia package first.  I'm pretty sure my ION2 atom board ran the nvidia package; I use that box as an NAS now and it doesn't have X installed so no need for a gfx driver now.

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alphaniner

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Re: [solved] Driver for Nvidia ION Card

I have a Zotac board with integrated nVidia ION. I only used it briefly because the video performance was pretty bad for flash/silverlight even in Windows. I'm pretty sure I just used the nvidia under Linux.

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geekinthesticks

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Re: [solved] Driver for Nvidia ION Card

Thanks the nVidia driver worked fine. I have two of these boxes, which I am using as MythTV frontends. They used to have Mythbuntu on them, but I am gradually going through all the computers in the house converting them to Arch. Video performance is fine for watching TV/videos.

alphaniner

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Re: [solved] Driver for Nvidia ION Card

Glad your experience was better than mine. Maybe I had a bad board.

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