nvidia 8200 chipset

[Karl F. Larsen]

steve wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is anyone familiar with msi k9n2gm board with nvidia 8200 chipset? 
    If the chipset is 8200 it must be a very new one. If the ones   at 
hardware drivers do not work then you need to goto the nvidia webpage. 
They should have a Linux driver set for your chipset. It d/l as a bash 
file and you run it with a ./ before the name.

Karl



>  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?
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