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[russbucket <russbucket@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday January 24 2007 10:48, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Jan 10, 07 19:18:35 -0700, Clint Tinsley wrote:
> > Has anyone been able to use the 7300 GT Nvidia with Xgl?
>
> All NVidia cards beginning with GeForce2 series work fine with Xgl - in
> principle. I've heard of successful tests on a GeForce Ti2.
>
> OpenGL acceleration may need a GeForce4 or FX5xxx.  XVideo acceleration
> and some compiz effects (rain) need a GeForce 6xxx (may work with some
> FX5xxx, but that's messy).
>
> We cannot test all cards, that's why only a few (tested) cards are in
> the card database. For NVidia there is none explicitly excluded.  Just
> not supported.
>
> Matthias
>
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I'm using a GeForce FX5200 on Opensuse 10.2 with the Downloaded Nvida driver 
thru YaST and it works fine. 3D also appears to work, Have not installed 
Googleearth since installing 10.2.
-- 
Russ
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