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Gigabyte FX 5200
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6 29388 06-27-2007
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100% of reviewers $36.00 10.0



Description: Brilliant little card - cost me $75 Australian
official model no GV-N52128DS
128 Meg Ram, TV out, DVI-D
Downloaded Linux drivers from NVidia.com and they installed OK.
Glxgears got 1600 fps on a Pentium III 733, 256 m ram running Mandrake 10.0

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Keywords: FX5200 Mandrake10.0 Gigabyte
/sbin/lspci output: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
Connection Type: AGP


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Old 10-17-2005, 05:35 PM   #1
dumluks
 
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: SuSE 11.4 x86_64 KDE 4.6
Posts: 15

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $36.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11.4-21.9-default
Distribution: SuSE 9.3-64



Machine recognized the card right off, SuSE installed the basics and than YOU took care of the bells and whistles.

Don't know who retailed my card as I bought it on ebay and it arrlved without papers, box etc., but it is the same nvidia chip this thread is about.

A good general purpose video card.
 
Old 11-14-2006, 12:33 PM   #2
deathman
 
Registered: Sep 2004
Distribution: Red Hat 8, Mandriva 2007 Free, Fedora 2,3,6
Posts: 35

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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.17-5mdv
Distribution: Mandriva 2007 free


The proprietry Mandriva linux drivers were found and installed succesfully
 
Old 12-09-2006, 08:06 PM   #3
/bin/bash
 
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Mandrake Slackware-current QNX4.25
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This is a good cheap replacement card if you have integrated video card using shared system memory. Big improvement from my VIA Savage Pro integrated graphics controller. I got the eVGA eGeForce FX 5200 card.

If you have proper kernel sources installed just download the driver from nvidia. Exit from X to init 3. Run nvidia installer. If the X configure doesn't work just edit xorg.conf and change the driver to nvidia. Restart X.
 
Old 03-08-2007, 12:30 AM   #4
Wells
 
Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: Debian, CentOS, gentoo
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.18-4-686
Distribution: Debian


Had no problems with this card during installation at all. It has dual port outputs on it for twin displays, and after downloading and installing the nvidia drivers from their website, then configuring x11 to use TwinView, it fired up in dual display mode without a hitch.
 
Old 06-01-2007, 05:47 PM   #5
SphereX
 
Registered: May 2007
Distribution: Slackware
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Kernel (uname -r): Can't check.
Distribution: FC6 / Windows XP


Worked just fine on FC5, FC6 and Windows XP.

Drivers were all found, no problem at all.
 
Old 06-27-2007, 01:55 PM   #6
tjyorkshire
 
Registered: Jun 2007
Distribution: openSUSE 10.2
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.18.2-34-default
Distribution: openSUSE 10.2


worked great - installed drivers from their website to enable 3D support
 




  



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