[ale] Decent low-cost AGP graphics card for a server

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 15:51:07 EDT 2010


Have you tried the open source "nv" driver that ships with X? If this
is a file server you really don't need the 3D support that the closed
source driver gives you. The nv driver is 2D only and should work with
any nVidia card you throw at it, especially older ones.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Those instructions call for the nvidia 1.0-7174 driver which is no
> longer available.
>
> I tried the nvidia 173.14.25 driver, but it said my old card needed
> the older 71.86.13 driver.



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