nvidia 8200 chipset

[steve]

Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> steve wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is anyone familiar with msi k9n2gm board with nvidia 8200 chipset?  Just
>> built a new mythbox with this, and Ive had better luck and performance
>> with an athlon xp and a 5200 card. (bought most everything from newegg,
>> and believe it or not had excellent linux reviews the only reason i
>> chose it) sad, because this box should be smokin fast, 3.2 ghz athlon
>> x2, and 4 gig ram but I cant get any accelerated driver to work
>> properly, theres 3 that show up in hardware drivers 173 180 and some
>> other one.  All I get is a garbled screen on all, have to kill gdm,
>> change nvidia to nv in xorg to get x back again, but only 640x480 on my
>> 42" lcd, looks ridiculous.
>>
>> using 8.10, which may be my first mistake, all other machines are 8.04
>> and run without a hiccup...anyone have this 8200 chipset on 8.10?  and
>> what driver do you use? an older one?
> 
> I'm running 8.10 on a NVidia 8200 chipset "gamer" board (XFX - GeForce 
> 8200).
> 
> At first had problems to recognize HD drives because the 8200 chipset is 
> new and still not supported. It took a couple of days, almost gave up 
> and changed the board, but finally installed Ubuntu and found out that 
> the inexpensive board works very well, it is indeed fast, specially if 
> you enable AHCI instead of SATA before installation. You might have some 
> problems with audio but this can also be managed.
> 
> Regarding video config, I first installed the recommended driver from 
> Synaptic (177 works for me, 180 probably but haven't tested yet) and 
> then activated it at System/Adm/Hardw Drv.
> Later upgraded to 177.82 at NVidia.
> 
> Remember to install NVidia X Server Settings for managing.
> 
> There are newer versions of the drivers at the NVidia site, they should 
> be installed after GDM is closed. A lot of info about this can be found 
> at the NVidia site.
> 
> I have 8.10 AMD64 and 8.04 i386 partitions but I'm running mostly with 
> the original installation (8.10 i386).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> L.
> 
> 


Hi, thanks for the info.  I gave up last night, going to give it another
go later today after work.  I mainly used restricted through ubuntu for
the nvidia driver, but went out to nvidia and downloaded the latest
180.something, but that was the worst one.  completely garbled screen.
been a long time since ive had x problems, ill admit, this is throwing
me for a loop.... go figure...... new hardware...



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