Nvidia Quadro 4 cards

[Dave Woyciesjes]

nstone wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>   
>> Wife brought home 2 Nvidia Quadro 4 graphic cards yesterday that she
>> picked up from the recycle center ($2.00 each). Both are certified as
>> working & look as new. (Certified as working meaning that they've been
>> tested by a tech at the center who typically knows what he is doing &
>> also means that they can be returned if they don't work)
>>
>> However they have dual DVI connectors on each & before I spend $$ on
>> DVI-A Male to HD15 VGA Female Video Adapter's I wonder if anyone else on
>> the list is using this card & if so: 1) can point me to any issues in
>> using the card(s) with Hardy and/or Ubuntu in general, and 2) advise on
>> how well they like the card overall. Unfortunately I know nothing about
>> the cards at this point other than they are marked Model P83 and Quatro 4.
>>
>> TIA: Gary
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I've never had any issues with any nVidia card that I was unable to
> resolve with the official nVidia drivers and google.
>
>   

I've got one of them, according to Nvidia settings it's Quadro NVS 400, 
64MB RAM, AGP 4x. Works dandy and fine with the restricted drivers, but 
since this is my work machine, haven't had a chance to try the shiny 
polished advanced display effects... There is a VGA pigtail available 
for it too.

lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro 
NVS] (rev a3)

lshw:
  *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: NV17GL [Quadro NVS]
                vendor: nVidia Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
                version: a3
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 66MHz
                capabilities: pm agp agp-2.0 vga_controller bus_master 
cap_list
                configuration: driver=nvidia latency=248 maxlatency=1 
mingnt=5 module=nvidia

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