Hello, On Sun, 11 Mar 2012, Michael Fischer wrote:
Does anyone have experience with any of the following?
Radeon 5450 GeForce 210 GeForce 8600GS
I have a GeForce 8400GS and a GeForce G210. No problems. At times, a new driver will not work, in that case, you just have to stay at a "proven good" driver, e.g. I still use 270.41.06, current is 295.something (and IIRC some probs, 290.something works IIRC). All above are AFAIK supported by the free drivers, not sure about 3D for the GF 210 though. Also, AFAIK, with the free nv/nouveau/radeon drivers, you won't be able to read the temps from the card and also unable to tune frequencies and the fan speed. For that you'll need the nvidia resp. the fglrx driver.
Particularly in the case of the MOBO having an integrated video card and installing one of the above in PCI. In this case, what does the system do? Does it expose both and ask you to pick? Or does the PCI one "take over", hiding the integrated card from teh OS?
- you can (de)activate the onboard in the BIOS - you might be able to choose which one of those (onboard, PCIe, PCI) will be initialised first and thus become the primary card - you might be able to use both, though I don't know how onboard and offboard harmonize, esp. when those are from different manufacturers (i.e. how AMD/Intel onboard will harmonize with a nVidia/AMD offboard GPU) HTH, -dnh -- This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy descriptions on paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan. -- Neal Stephenson, "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org