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cjnkns

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Registered: 2009-03-03

Posts: 8

Determine appropriate graphics card...

How can I determine what nvidia graphics driver I need?

I have a Nvidia Go 6800 graphics card on my laptop. From the nvidia page I can't seem to figure out how the driver there correlates with what I need to install through pacman?

Also, if I install the proprietary drivers is it ok to install X first then the video drivers? The instructions seem to indicate to install the open source video drivers then install X. After installing X it talks about the proprietary drivers. Just wanted to make sure I get this right

evr

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Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Determine appropriate graphics card...

i'm not sure which driver you need, but for the second part of your question, you don't have to install the open source drivers first.  you can just install x and the proprietary driver.

xaiviax

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 282

Re: Determine appropriate graphics card...

Your card uses nvidia and nvidia-utils

pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils

MattSmith

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From: Wellington, New Zealand

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 108

Re: Determine appropriate graphics card...

Only cards before the gforce series, I believe, use the older drivers. xaiviax, has the correct code. You may want to check out the beginners guide, if you have anymore problems.

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cjnkns

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Registered: 2009-03-03

Posts: 8

Re: Determine appropriate graphics card...

Thanks for the help - I'll try 'pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils' when I get to that step.

Only cards before the gforce series, I believe, use the older drivers. xaiviax, has the correct code. You may want to check out the beginners guide, if you have anymore problems.

I am using the beginners guide Thanks for the help.

Surgat_

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Registered: 2007-08-08

Posts: 317

Re: Determine appropriate graphics card...

Simply install the xorg group and your drivers by issuing:

pacman -S xorg nvidia nvidia-utils

Then you can get a xorg.conf with nvidia-xconfig, as shown in the wiki.