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Mzg

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2009-09-06

Posts: 43

Multiple video card drivers?

I wasn't sure where to put this, but I guess it's a newbie question.

I have Arch installed on my USB pen drive. It will therefore be taken around on different computers with different hardware - including video cards.

I figured that I basically had two choices:

  1. Install some very general drivers that work with basically anything
  2. Install many specialized drivers

For #1 I guess Vesa will do, but it won't give me a lot of eye-candy. I believe alsa is quite general so I won't need anything else for sound?

My question is related to #2. Is it a good idea to have many drivers installed? Can they all be installed at the same time?

I would appreciate if anyone had some advice for me here, not only for video cards, but also for other hardware, like printers.

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Mzg

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2009-09-06

Posts: 43

Re: Multiple video card drivers?

Anyone....? Should I post in a different forum section, perhaps..?

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jelly

Administrator

From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 714

Re: Multiple video card drivers?

I dont think mixing two video drivers like nvidia and ATI is recommended. Use the VESA driver and for printers it's also different , most sound cards support ALSA.

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Mzg

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2009-09-06

Posts: 43

Re: Multiple video card drivers?

Thank you. I guess I can do without printer support if I have to. At least I haven't heard about any generic printer drivers.

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jelly

Administrator

From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 714

Re: Multiple video card drivers?

doublepost fail

Last edited by jelly (2009-09-08 15:22:03)

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