Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:44:21PM -0600, Michael Langley wrote: > Hey, to each his own. I was just stating my personal preference but I do > encourage others to do the same. If you know how to use a few simple tools > like ls and ln you shouldn't have any problems at all with the driver packag

Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Langley
Hey, to each his own. I was just stating my personal preference but I do encourage others to do the same. If you know how to use a few simple tools like ls and ln you shouldn't have any problems at all with the driver package from nvidia's site. I never have. I do find it sad, however, tha

Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread Harald Dunkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Unless you really play 3D games (which I guess you don't given it's a > 5200!) why do you even bother with those binary drivers? My 6600 > (cheapest no-fan pci-e card I could find without 'turbo-cache' and other > probably-windows-only-stuff) works very good in x.org a

Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 02:07:32PM -0600, Michael Langley wrote: > I don't know about the rest of the list but there are some things I don't > like to depend on my distro for. Kernel source, alsa, and nvidia drivers > just to name a few. I just updated the latest nvidia drivers the other day >

Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread thunder7
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:46:07 +0100 > "Joost Kraaijeveld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just put a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 into my machine (my Matrox 550 will not > > work properly with Xinerama after the update to x.org). I followed several > > howto's (even from the people th

Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread Michael Langley
I don't know about the rest of the list but there are some things I don't like to depend on my distro for. Kernel source, alsa, and nvidia drivers just to name a few. I just updated the latest nvidia drivers the other day and got them from nvidia.com at the url below: http://www.nvidia.com/ob

Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread Harald Dunkel
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:46:07PM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > >>I just put a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 into my machine (my Matrox 550 will not >>work properly with Xinerama after the update to x.org). I followed several >>howto's (even from the people that wrote it

Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:46:07PM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > I just put a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 into my machine (my Matrox 550 will not > work properly with Xinerama after the update to x.org). I followed several > howto's (even from the people that wrote it worked, e.g. Stefan Salewski'

Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread mikepolniak
On 18:46 Thu 22 Dec , Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > I just put a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 into my machine (my Matrox 550 will not > work properly with Xinerama after the update to x.org). I followed several > howto's (even from the people that wrote it worked, e.g. Stefan Salewski's > "N

Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 22 December 2005 13:46, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > I just put a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 into my machine (my Matrox 550 > will not work properly with Xinerama after the update to x.org). I > followed several howto's (even from the people that wrote it worked, > e.g. Stefan Salewsk

Re: Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 18:46 +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > I just put a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 into my machine (my Matrox 550 > will not work properly with Xinerama after the update to x.org). I > followed several howto's (even from the people that wrote it worked, > e.g. Stefan Salewsk

Confused: nvidia on AMD64???

2005-12-22 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I just put a NVidia GeForce FX 5200 into my machine (my Matrox 550 will not work properly with Xinerama after the update to x.org). I followed several howto's (even from the people that wrote it worked, e.g. Stefan Salewski's "NVidia driver successfully installed!" and his link http://home