nVidia 7300 GT

[Michael McGillick]

Hi:

I have a Mac Pro with Intel-Based processors. The graphics card included with the system was the nVidia 7300GT. Prior to installing Fedora, I bought an ATI X1900 XT graphics card and have successfully used this under both Mac OS X and Windows Vista (few minor issues under Vista, but acceptable). After installing Fedora 7, I've been unable to get my system to correctly use the card and resolution of my 2560x1600 monitor.

My question is in regards to the 7300GT. Is this card supported by Fedora 7, meaning will it properly detect and install the drivers during the install process, or does it require some hocus pocus on my part to get it to work properly? I've already gone through this with the ATI card, and have no desire to do so again. I'm not a gamer, so the it's not critical that I have the best card available. I simply want to be able to display my desktop in 2560x1600 and have a nice clean picture and fonts.

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has this card or has worked with it and how it's supported. Thanks.

- Michael

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 10:50 -0700, Michael McGillick wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have a Mac Pro with Intel-Based processors. The graphics card
> included with the system was the nVidia 7300GT. Prior to installing
> Fedora, I bought an ATI X1900 XT graphics card and have successfully
> used this under both Mac OS X and Windows Vista (few minor issues
> under Vista, but acceptable). After installing Fedora 7, I've been
> unable to get my system to correctly use the card and resolution of my
> 2560x1600 monitor.
>
> My question is in regards to the 7300GT. Is this card supported by
> Fedora 7, meaning will it properly detect and install the drivers
> during the install process, or does it require some hocus pocus on my
> part to get it to work properly? I've already gone through this with
> the ATI card, and have no desire to do so again. I'm not a gamer, so
> the it's not critical that I have the best card available. I simply
> want to be able to display my desktop in 2560x1600 and have a nice
> clean picture and fonts.
>
> I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has this card or has worked
> with it and how it's supported. Thanks.
> Michael

In my case under F7, my GF6800GT (with the open source NV driver) detected my 24" Dell LCD and configured the resolution (without having to manually set the mode-line) out of the box.
You might want to considering using the binary (closed source) drivers, if you require any type of 3D acceleration.

- Gilboa

[Robin Laing]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 10:50 -0700, Michael McGillick wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I have a Mac Pro with Intel-Based processors. The graphics card
> > included with the system was the nVidia 7300GT. Prior to installing
> > Fedora, I bought an ATI X1900 XT graphics card and have successfully
> > used this under both Mac OS X and Windows Vista (few minor issues
> > under Vista, but acceptable). After installing Fedora 7, I've been
> > unable to get my system to correctly use the card and resolution of my
> > 2560x1600 monitor.
> >
> > My question is in regards to the 7300GT. Is this card supported by
> > Fedora 7, meaning will it properly detect and install the drivers
> > during the install process, or does it require some hocus pocus on my
> > part to get it to work properly? I've already gone through this with
> > the ATI card, and have no desire to do so again. I'm not a gamer, so
> > the it's not critical that I have the best card available. I simply
> > want to be able to display my desktop in 2560x1600 and have a nice
> > clean picture and fonts.
> >
> > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has this card or has worked
> > with it and how it's supported. Thanks.
> > Michael
>
> In my case under F7, my GF6800GT (with the open source NV driver) detected my 24" Dell LCD and configured the resolution (without having to manually set the mode-line) out of the box.
> You might want to considering using the binary (closed source) drivers, if you require any type of 3D acceleration.
> Gilboa

I installed F7 on my machine at home and it worked with 3D out of the 
box using the OpenSource driver.  I have a 5000 series card in it.

I put the Nvidia drive in (livna) and now I have some issues but I am 
not sure where these come from yet.  Video resolution and mouse features 
changed.

FWIW, Nvidia seems to suppor Linux much better than ATI has.  Heck, I 
know Windows people that tell me the same thing.

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:16 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> I installed F7 on my machine at home and it worked with 3D out of the 
> box using the OpenSource driver.  I have a 5000 series card in it.

The open source NV driver lacks any type of 3D acceleration.
What-ever 3D you saw was done on your host CPU.
> I put the Nvidia drive in (livna) and now I have some issues but I am 
> not sure where these come from yet.  Video resolution and mouse features 
> changed.

FYI, the Livna driver is just RPM packaging around the 'generic'
nvidia.com close source driver.
> FWIW, Nvidia seems to suppor Linux much better than ATI has.  Heck, I 
> know Windows people that tell me the same thing.

nVidia's non-Windows driver support (and BSD/Solaris) runs circles
around ATI's.
No question about it.

Never the less, it is in the community's best interest to have working,
3D-able open source drivers for nVidia hardware. (Hopefully the Nouveau
project will cover that)

- Gilboa

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 05 July 2007, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:16 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> > I installed F7 on my machine at home and it worked with 3D out of the
> > box using the OpenSource driver.  I have a 5000 series card in it.
>
> The open source NV driver lacks any type of 3D acceleration.
> What-ever 3D you saw was done on your host CPU.
> > I put the Nvidia drive in (livna) and now I have some issues but I am
> > not sure where these come from yet.  Video resolution and mouse features
> > changed.
>
> FYI, the Livna driver is just RPM packaging around the 'generic'
> nvidia.com close source driver.
> > FWIW, Nvidia seems to suppor Linux much better than ATI has.  Heck, I
> > know Windows people that tell me the same thing.
>
> nVidia's non-Windows driver support (and BSD/Solaris) runs circles
> around ATI's.
> No question about it.
>
> Never the less, it is in the community's best interest to have working,
> 3D-able open source drivers for nVidia hardware. (Hopefully the Nouveau
> project will cover that)
> Gilboa

Is this Nouveau package in a testable state yet?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 11:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 05 July 2007, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:16 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> > > I installed F7 on my machine at home and it worked with 3D out of the
> > > box using the OpenSource driver.  I have a 5000 series card in it.
> >
> > The open source NV driver lacks any type of 3D acceleration.
> > What-ever 3D you saw was done on your host CPU.
> > > I put the Nvidia drive in (livna) and now I have some issues but I am
> > > not sure where these come from yet.  Video resolution and mouse features
> > > changed.
> >
> > FYI, the Livna driver is just RPM packaging around the 'generic'
> > nvidia.com close source driver.
> > > FWIW, Nvidia seems to suppor Linux much better than ATI has.  Heck, I
> > > know Windows people that tell me the same thing.
> >
> > nVidia's non-Windows driver support (and BSD/Solaris) runs circles
> > around ATI's.
> > No question about it.
> >
> > Never the less, it is in the community's best interest to have working,
> > 3D-able open source drivers for nVidia hardware. (Hopefully the Nouveau
> > project will cover that)
> > Gilboa
>
> Is this Nouveau package in a testable state yet?

AFAIK yes (or at least playable). But far from being stable.

I plan on deploying an old PIII/GF4400 machine to be used as
test/debug-bed once I have some free time.

- Gilboa