Yep...I can confirm this as I have one of the HP branded Quadro's from this
machine myself

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 03:04, John Martin <John.M.Martin at sun.com> wrote:

> Glenn Lagasse wrote:
>
>> As for dropping to console login, that indicates that either we don't
>> support the graphics card you have (we support NVIDIA, but not older
>> NVIDIA chipsets) or it's just more image corruption holding you up.
>>
>>
>>
> That's not the expected behavior.
>
> If the bundled nvidia driver does not support the card installed, whether
> it is
> too old or too new, installation should still proceed in graphical mode
> using
> the nv or vesa driver.
>
> For the HP xw4600, the bundled nvidia driver supports all the NVIDIA
> graphics cards listed at the HP U.S. web page.  Note: all the cards shown
> on the HP web page are from the Quadro family, not GeForce as Kevin
> mentioned in his posting.  If there is a GeForce card in this system, it
> may
> not be the original card.  Regardless, support for GPUs as far back as 2000
> are supported by the legacy nvidia drivers (R96 and R173).
>
>
>
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