8800GT does not under Linux OS !!!!!!

[Zorachus]

My Brother finally upgraded to a nice new 8800GT to game with. He has a dual boot of WinP Pro and Linux. Said it play Team Fortress 2 smooth as butter, but booted up Linux and no workie

Whats the deal ??

 

[Bio-Hazard]

Easy answer, brand new card, it takes a bit for the free Linux people to get the drivers updated. Nvidia also supplies Linux drivers, but I'd be willing to bet that they haven't been updated yet either.

 

[Zorachus]

Can't my brother use the nVidia drivers for Linux for like a 8800GTX a one year old product already ??

 

[markt435]

Can't my brother use the nVidia drivers for Linux for like a 8800GTX a one year old product already ??

probably but he'll need to reinstall the drivers i bet. if you do a search for drivers on nvidias site it takes you too the set thats out already so try reinstalling them.

 

[vanilla_guerilla]

if they work like windows drivers, then no. 8800gt will not work with earlier drivers because its not on the list of supported hardware in the drivers.

 

[rhagz]

It won't work as a generic VGA adapter?

I just built a brand new system and installed Vista no problem without any drivers. Of course I had no 3D, but it worked fine as a generic 2D display.

 

[pxc]

The current beta driver supports the 8800GT. All you had to do is select 8800GT from the drop down list.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_100.14.23.html

 

[Digital Cro-Magnon]

It won't work as a generic VGA adapter?

I just built a brand new system and installed Vista no problem without any drivers. Of course I had no 3D, but it worked fine as a generic 2D display.
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The vesa linux driver does not support dual monitors, which I have.

 

[vanilla_guerilla]

christ, what do you want, everything?

 

[rhagz]

christ, what do you want, everything?

Everything but Windows apparently!

 

[vanilla_guerilla]

no, he does want windows. because windows, unlike linux, vesa driver supports dual monnys.

 

[NKD]

The current beta driver supports the 8800GT. All you had to do is select 8800GT from the drop down list.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_100.14.23.html

yea you can select it but that doesn't mean it works with the 8800gt, the driver was released 11 days before the gt launch and I have tried it and it doesn't work. Its pretty pathetic if you ask me its been 25days since the card launched and not even a beta driver for linux.

 

[DOpamine]

It should just work , what distro you running there ?

 

[pxc]

yea you can select it but that doesn't mean it works with the 8800gt, the driver was released 11 days before the gt launch and I have tried it and it doesn't work.

LOL

So cute when the n* come out to play.

 

[DOpamine]

I setup a friends via ssh , worked fine - which distro , custom kernel or stock kernel , information is valuable