[lug] video card recommandation for 1680x1050?

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Wed Sep 5 12:15:08 MDT 2007


On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:30:43AM -0600, dio2002 at indra.com wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:31 -0600, Hugh Brown wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> I did find one page that seemed to indicate that the nv driver won't
> >> do 1680x1050.
> >
> > I am using the nv driver on my laptop's 64MB GeForce4 440 Go to run its
> > 1920x1200 screen.  It's crappy and slow but it does work.
> 
> Is that OS driver or proprietary?  Also, what distro?

nv is the open source driver, nvidia is the proprietary driver.  nv doesn't support the latest/greatest nVidia chipsets, nor does it have 3d acceleration.

Hugh



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