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    GeForce EN8800GT support or not?

    Hello

    I have just one question. Is GeForce EN8800 GT supported in Linux? It does not work on my machine using nvidia driver, and if I use nv driver, GLX is not supported. This special model of a card is NOT listed in compatibility list on Nvidia website (but there is for example GeForce 8800 GTS).
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    Re: GeForce EN8800GT support or not?

    I'm running an 8800GTS now, and it's fully supported. But I would go by the Nvidia site -- if they say yours is not supported ......

    BTW, there's a beta Nvidia driver out -- did you check it?

    http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d...64_169.04.html

    I'd give it a try before throwing in the towel.
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      Re: GeForce EN8800GT support or not?

      Well, it can be the reason cause this chip seems to be very new. A friend of mine told me that I should use beta drivers in Windows but I did not know that there are also Linux beta drivers... Anyway, it is a pity that we need to download some strange drivers from the nVidia website... I will check it out today.
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        Re: GeForce EN8800GT support or not?

        I managed to get it installed here, but it seems a little flaky on my 8800GTS 320. It may be because it is trying to run compiz (which was previously installed and set up to run automatically). The splash screens all look good, but after my login the X server sometimes gives me a blank white screen instead of my desktop. :P
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          Re: GeForce EN8800GT support or not?

          Well, I also had the issues after logout in KDE. It went to text mode with some strange colour strips and the computer froze... I thought it was because of Hardy alpha, but it can be also caused by GPU overheating... Although ctrl+alt+bksp worked (except after logout).
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            Re: GeForce EN8800GT support or not?

            After I installed my 8800GTS, I had a strange problem that I never experienced before -- Ctrl-Alt-Fx ("x" being 1 - 6) would set the screen into goofy colored "noise", instead of character mode like it is supposed to. Of course the card has a character mode -- I saw it during the installation of Kubuntu and Mepis, and you can see it during the boot process. But after the X server was running, there seemed to be no way to get it into character mode for the ttys. This was on the Mepis system.

            Finally I re-ran nvidia-xconfig, and somehow that fixed it -- I'm not sure what is different about the xorg.conf file that was created second time around, but it's working correctly now. I've got compiz running right on the Mepis side (under the 100.14.19 driver). On Kubuntu, the compiz ccsm would not open, even thought Emerald works fine, so I went ahead and installed the beta Nvidia driver. ccsm still won't open, and Emerald still works, but I also have the weird white screen thing sometimes.
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              Re: GeForce EN8800GT support or not?

              I solved it by reinstalling to 7.10 and installing the official driver from nVidia website
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                Re: GeForce EN8800GT support or not?

                I get similar problems with the card I run however it's older and ATI. It's a Radeon 9250 I bought about 3 or 4 years back. I researched up on this card and Linux and for some reason they absolutely hate each other. I've tried hundreds of different things to make it work and even tried to download the drivers from the ATI site but, for some reason they don't run. It's a okay card, has good 3D graphics for its time. But, on Linux anything that's 3D or transparent runs encredibly slow. I had to rig it up with sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to make it get past the boot screen. Before I got all kinds of weird problems. The screen looked like it had be stretched in a zig zag pattern a thousand times all the way to the bottom of the screen. Weird.
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                  Re: GeForce EN8800GT support or not?

                  @Wizzard there's a new Nvidia driver that was released the 20th. You might want to give it a try.

                  Also, on my 8800GTS, I figured out that the "quiet" option on the boot line was putting it to sleep, before the login GUI was presented. So taking that out helped.

                  Here's more:

                  http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3089767.0
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                    Re: GeForce EN8800GT support or not?

                    Hello guys. It is been a couple of days since that new driver was released, but there is a bug with the fan speed, that runs at highest speed. So I need to compile newest nvclock from CVS and set it to lower speed. But the compilation failed. Have anybody compiled nvclock in Kubuntu? I have installed build-essential package, too.
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