Hardy Heron OK with Asus graphics cards?

[Daniel Mons]

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andremangan at gmail.com wrote:
> Dave,  your graphics card is actually an nVidia 8600 GT.
> 
> Asus is merely the assembler.

To be perfectly pedantic about it, Asus is the card manufacturer.  The
chip (aka "GPU") is made by Nvidia. :)

> 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.

Nvidia GeForce 8600 based cards will work fine with both the Linux frame
buffer and the "nv" free/open source driver bundled with Xorg.  This
will give you full speed 2D hi-colour graphics "out of the box" without
any manual configuration.

If you also want hardware accelerated 3D (eg: OpenGL acceleration), you
will need to install the non-free "nvidia-glx-new" package (which show
up in Xorg as the drivers labelled "nvidia") from the "restricted"
repository.  The Ubuntu proprietary driver manager (which is started
automatically when you first log in to a default Ubuntu install) will
automatically suggest these drivers and download/install them if you wish.

- -Dan
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