Hardy Heron OK with Asus graphics cards?

[andremangan at gmail.com]

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> I am new to Linux. I recently got a new computer with two hard drives
> (WIN Vista on one of them). Ubuntu sounds great and I'm keen to get hold
> of Hardy Heron and try it out on the spare hard drive in my computer and
> explore the opportunities that Ubuntu offers.
> In Ubuntu forums on the Net I have read that nvidia graphics cards work
> better "out of the box" with Ubuntu than ATI ones do.
> My new computer has an Asus graphics card (Asus EN8600GT-MG-HTP-512 512
> Mb 16X PCI-E).
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> I am concerned about whether I'll have trouble with Hardy Heron and this
> graphics card, as I haven't seen much mention of Asus cards in the
> forums.
> Does anyone know if this Asus card is likely to be compatible with
> Ubuntu (for a newbie!)?
>


Dave,  your graphics card is actually an nVidia 8600 GT.

Asus is merely the assembler.

As far as I can ascertain, this card is reported to work out of the box with
Gutsy Gibbon, the previous release of Ubuntu so one can reasonably assume
that it will also work in Hardy.

Cheers
Andre


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