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Nvidia Riva TNT2
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91% of reviewers $13.50 8.9



Description: Old card, still works well under all distros installed: Debian, RH, Gentoo, Slackware
Keywords: Nvidia Riva TNT2 video card
/sbin/lspci output: 00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [RIVA TNT] (rev 04)
Connection Type: PCI


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Old 12-17-2003, 09:17 PM   #1
TheOneAndOnlySM
 
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Kubuntu (latest), Slackware-current
Posts: 983

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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.0-test11
Distribution: Slackware 9.1



This product works perfectly under Linux and comes working out of the box for most distros with their generic kernels (however without full 3d support).

Getting 3d support is as simple as installing a driver :) Nvidia drivers work like a charm as long as you follow the directions very carefully. The current 4496 driver works under the 2.6 kernels with a patch from http://www.minion.de/

Dmesg output in the 2.6 kernel tells me that agp 4x is nicely integrated with the agpgart module that can be built with the kernel and all my 3d apps run well.

Old card, but very well supported by software, and in both Windows and Linux.
 
Old 12-19-2003, 05:36 PM   #2
fang0654
 
Registered: Oct 2003
Distribution: Ubuntu
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Old 02-06-2004, 02:15 PM   #3
MadTurki
 
Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: RedHat 9, Mandrake 10, OS X
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $15.00 | Rating: 5

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.20-28.9
Distribution: Redhat 9


Not so hot for me. Worked fine from the go but when I tried to upgrade Xfree86 through up2date, boom. No more display from boot to death. Bad bad thing! Had to reinstall the pacages off an emergency reboot from the CDs.
 
Old 03-15-2004, 04:36 PM   #4
r_jensen11
 
Registered: Apr 2003
Distribution: Slack 10.0 w/2.4.26
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.2
Distribution: Slackware


It worked decently when using the standard svga drivers, but it wasn't until I actually installed the drivers from nvidia's website that things like screensavers ran smoothly. The card is about 5 or 6 years old, and it was a really good feeling to not have to buy a new card, like what I had to do for my audio card, even though that became free after rebates... (I'm not the best with setting up ISA devices). But the video card works well under Linux, just make sure you install the drivers for it from www.nvidia.com and it should be fine for casual computer-use. The only thing that prevents me from doing everything I'd like to on this computer is thef act that it only has 200mhz, so I can't play some games I would like to.
 
Old 07-17-2004, 01:14 PM   #5
explosive
 
Registered: Jul 2004
Distribution: SuSE 10.0
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.24-x1
Distribution: Xandros


excellent hardware.
my card is 4 years old but still compatible with all the distro's
RH 9,Fedora,Mandrake,SUSE,Knoppix,Xandros,Slackware..almost all the distro's existing now...

no problem card.
but i don't remember the price now..it was costly when i had bought it..

thanks
 
Old 07-22-2004, 03:42 PM   #6
darkleaf
 
Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: debian SID
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.7
Distribution: debian


Works great with the NVidia drivers
 
Old 09-01-2004, 01:27 PM   #7
MasterPatricko
 
Registered: Aug 2004
Distribution: openSUSE
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.5-7.104-default
Distribution: SuSE Linux 9.1


Works fine once you install the drivers from NVidia ...

It's not the greatest, but it works, so oh well!
 
Old 09-08-2004, 10:59 AM   #8
MadTurki
 
Registered: Nov 2003
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.7
Distribution: Fedora Core 2


Worked amazingly perfect under FC2. This card was death in Redhat 9 but great for the price on a server with no gui
 
Old 12-09-2004, 02:13 PM   #9
wenberg
 
Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: Slackware 10, Debian Sarge
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8.1-ck4
Distribution: Slackware 10


I've had the card for years. It's not most feature rich card out there but it works. I didn't require any drivers from nVidia as I was satisfied with the desktop from the get-go.
 
Old 12-15-2004, 10:41 PM   #10
Thorium
 
Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Debian
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1 Official


I got 2 comps up and running on Mandrake, 1 was a breeze to install the nvidia drivers for, the other I had to disable riva support, recompile the kernel, and do the normal editing. A little more playing around got it up fine. It was already in the old comps, and they worked. Good stuff if you don't need 3d. Also, the newest nvidia drivers don't work, and 6111 wouldn't compile, go for 5336.
 
Old 08-07-2005, 10:31 PM   #11
tdking19
 
Registered: Sep 2004
Distribution: Slackware
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10
Distribution: Slackware 10.1


Works perfectly, I get around 312 FPS in glxgears. OpenGL screen savers work great with this card. I have also used it to play Warcraft 3 with Cedega although play was slightly sluggish compared to windows. Great card for videos and screensavers, not so great for gaming.
 




  



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