NVidia GT520 and the rpmfusion how-to

[Mauriat Miranda]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just plugged an NVidia GT520 into my Fedora 17 machine and I have two
> monitors working with the nouveau driver with zero effort on my part. Yay.
> But videos are jumpy so I want to try the proprietary driver.
>
> I went to the How-to that's been recommended on this list, at
>
> http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia
>
> Where the first task is to figure out which driver to install. The options
> are "GeForce 6 and Newer," "GeForce 5 (FX Series)," and "GeForce 2 through
> GeForce 4."
>
> You're supposed to see what lspci says to figure out which you have, but my
> lspci output is a little obtuse:
>
> [matt at matt ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 1040 (rev a1)
>
> Which one do I have?

Most likely this is a relatively new piece of hardware, so you would
select the "and Newer" category.

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