<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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). 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!)? </blockquote><div>  </div><div>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 </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div>