NVidia GT520 and the rpmfusion how-to

[Matt Morgan]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Mauriat Miranda <mlists at mjmwired.com> wrote:

> 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.


You were correct. I didn't realize how old the 6 series was.

Ironically, with the proprietary driver Fedora doesn't see my second
monitor, and while videos play beautifully smoothly, people in them all
look very blue! Only in videos ... I don't see any other color issues.
Anyway, consider this one solved.

Thanks,
Matt
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