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Originally posted by pilotgi
What did you mean by your comment about nvidia drivers? I have been to their website to look for drivers for the video card I was thinking about buying.
They did have the driver and lots of info about installation and issues with
the ALI chipset on my board.
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I think I know what he was talking about. A lot of companies build video cards under license using NVidia chipsets. They all provide a CD with Windows video drivers they have cooked up. Many of the manufacturers don't provide Linux drivers. Well, NVidia does write drivers for its chipsets--both Linux and Windows. To keep their respective licenses manufacturers are required to prove that the NVidia drivers work on their cards. The NVidia drivers will work on all of the NVidia chipset cards I have seen regardless of manufacturer. Many people, myself included, think the NVidia drivers are often better than those manufactured by the various manufacturers. So if you have a NVidia chipset card all you have to do is install the NVidia Linux driver and that card will run regardless of whether the manufacturer writes its own Linux driver.
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