Re: Linux and older ATI or nVidia cards



On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:04:05 +0000, J G Miller wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:41:41 +0200, JBJ \(4920\) wrote:

Where Unbutu 9.10 up to 10.04 would not work with 3D on my nVidia Vanta
or ATI radeon 9100, Mandriva works just fine And Compiz Fusion works
like a dream.

So why do you not use it?

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Heh. He's not smart enough to install an Nvidia driver. I provided him
a direct link to the proper driver for that card on the Nvidia website a
couple of weeks ago, and he didn't respond or try it. Too hard for a Win-
droid to do such a thing.





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