Notebook video card help

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Richard Mancusi <vrman49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 21:47, Richard Mancusi <vrman49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have an opportunity to purchase soon to be discontinued
>> notebooks at significant savings.  My #1 concern is the
>> video cards.  Does anyone have experience with either of
>> the following.  I suspect that given enough time most cards
>> can be made to work.  However I am not looking for a
>> project - no make a new kernel, etc.  I would prefer to stick
>> with a readily available driver in 8.10 or 9.04.  It does not
>> need to support compiz.
>>
>> 1. NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M graphics with 512 MB dedicated
>> video memory.  Screen resolution would be 1920 x 1200.
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2. NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M graphics with 256 MB dedicated
>> video memory.  Screen resolution would be 1680 x 1050.
>>
>> tia
>> -rich
>>
>
> More info - it appears that the correct package is either
> nvidia-glx-177 or nvidia-glx-180  per the following links.
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/i386/nvidia-glx-177
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/i386/nvidia-glx-180
>
> Any comments are appreciated.  e.g. would the correct driver
> requirement be discovered while I am doing the initial 8.10
> install, etc.
>
> -rich

It seems that the last NVidia driver available through Synaptic 180.*
(180.44 for Jaunty Beta) will do.

After a successful install, once your system is running, it will
eventually offer a NVidia proprietary driver. Once the driver is
installed, Ubuntu will automatically compile it and (after restart)
make available all resolutions and Visual Effects (Compiz) as well as
nvidia-settings (System - Administration - NVidia), the tool for
configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver.

No need to even go to the NVidia site but this is the link:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us


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