Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 10:50 -0700, Michael McGillick wrote:
Hi:
I have a Mac Pro with Intel-Based processors. The graphics card
included with the system was the nVidia 7300GT. Prior to installing
Fedora, I bought an ATI X1900 XT graphics card and have successfully
used this under both Mac OS X and Windows Vista (few minor issues
under Vista, but acceptable). After installing Fedora 7, I've been
unable to get my system to correctly use the card and resolution of my
2560x1600 monitor.
My question is in regards to the 7300GT. Is this card supported by
Fedora 7, meaning will it properly detect and install the drivers
during the install process, or does it require some hocus pocus on my
part to get it to work properly? I've already gone through this with
the ATI card, and have no desire to do so again. I'm not a gamer, so
the it's not critical that I have the best card available. I simply
want to be able to display my desktop in 2560x1600 and have a nice
clean picture and fonts.
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has this card or has worked
with it and how it's supported. Thanks.
- Michael
In my case under F7, my GF6800GT (with the open source NV driver) detected my 24" Dell LCD and configured the resolution (without having to manually set the mode-line) out of the box.
You might want to considering using the binary (closed source) drivers, if you require any type of 3D acceleration.
- Gilboa
I installed F7 on my machine at home and it worked with 3D out of the
box using the OpenSource driver. I have a 5000 series card in it.
I put the Nvidia drive in (livna) and now I have some issues but I am
not sure where these come from yet. Video resolution and mouse features
changed.
FWIW, Nvidia seems to suppor Linux much better than ATI has. Heck, I
know Windows people that tell me the same thing.
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