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Hmm. He's using the proprietory nVidia driver already. Ubuntu chose it for him. It needs the older v97? driver rather than the newer v180? I tried manually installing the latest driver set via synaptic without success - they just didn't like the card and Ubuntu fell back to it's 640x480 VGA failsafe mode. I could try downloading directly from nVidia I suppose but I expect I'll still need to use the older driver set rather than the newer one because the card is old. Martin Simon Robert wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:12 +0100, Martin Gautier wrote: > >> RAM & Processor is the easy part. >> >> What about Video cards with good support for Linux? I know practically >> anything will "work" but how about support for 3D? >> >> I'm currently trying to find something to upgrade my son's Ubuntu Jaunty >> which will allow him to play the Windows version of Need for Speed. He >> has a working install of Wine and XP in VMWare Player - which he needs >> to run MS Office so he can do his school homework, Publisher doesn't >> work in Wine - NfS falls over in Wine because the 3D support fails and >> VMware complains that 3D isn't enabled. He's currently running a very >> old nVdia card with the "old" nVidia driver set... >> >> Martin >> >> >> >> > probably upgrading the nvidia driver will do it, though you'll need to > use the official proprietary one and not the "nv" driver usually > installed as it doesn't support 3D. Ubuntu has the needed stuff, just > put nvidia into synaptic (if you're using ubuntu of course). The install > from the nvidia web site is pretty easy though. > > Generally IMHO nvidia have the best support for linux. > > Simon > > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html