[Ubuntu Chicago] Your next challenge is NVIDIA drivers and components.

[Max Luebbe]

Seconding what everyone else has already said - I used to admin a research
lab that ran nothing but Ubuntu Linux (No windows machines on my watch!) and
when building boxes I explicitly chose NVidia graphics because the binary
drivers worked well and provided awesome performance. One of the last boxes
I put together was a dual xeon with an agp 6600GT.

Temporary workaround for getting screwed by lousy creative drivers is to
enable your ac97 on your motherboard if you've got it via the bios. If you
are looking for better audio than that and are willing to spend a few
dollars, you can probably find a sound blaster 5.1 live card for $10 or so
somewhere on the internet, and this card behaves well under linux.

If you're having problems or haven't tried this yet, this is the way to get
stable nvidia drivers for your card:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

then restart x or reboot if you're feeling lazy, and you should be up and
running.

Hope that helps.

-Max
www.intentionallyobsolete.com

On 3/5/07, Eddie Martinez <eddiemartinez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> from the research i did a month or so ago on a creative soundblast
> audio card, Creative doesn't like linux, or at least their audio
> cards.
>
> On 3/5/07, RJ Marsan <rjmarsan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i <3 the 6600gt, works great with the latest nvidia drivers, even got
> aiglx
> > workin.
> > other than the sound card, which i have no experiance with, sounds like
> > you're good ta go
> >
> > On 3/5/07, Freddy Martinez <freddymartinez9 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Its the sound card most likely. Creative does not support that card
> (afaik
> > > from my research last year). Anyone else have ideas?
> > >
> > > On 3/5/07, Kendall Brown <kendallbrown at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello:
> > > >
> > > > I know you're not a support channel but I hope you don't mind if I
> make
> > > > a request of your team.  If you're not completely immersed in
> another
> > > > project I'd like to ask that someone looks into providing support
> for
> > > > NVIDIA based components on motherboards and graphics cards?  I've
> heard
> > > > such wonderful comments on the stability and functionality of Linux
> and
> > > > I'd really like to see this for myself but I have yet to find any
> > > > version of Linux that works on my computer without locking up at
> some
> > > > point during the installation.
> > > >
> > > > Gigabyte K8NSNXP Socket 754
> > > > Sempron +3400
> > > > XFX GeForce 6600GT
> > > > 2GB RAM
> > > > X-FI Creative sound card
> > > >
> > > > Something in this combination doesn't like Linux and causes my
> computer
> > > > to freeze every time.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list
> > > > Ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best,
> > > Freddy Martinez
> > > Kubuntu. Linux for human beings.
> > > www.chi.ubuntu-us.org
> > > </message>
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> > >
> > >
> >
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