6800gs agp driver working yet?

zensaber · 05-17-2006, 08:43 PM

I stoped using my linux after being new to it for a month not because it wasn't easy to learn but that my nvidia card wasn't supported by the nvidia driver that was out at the time. Now i'm not sure if the new fedora version fixed it or if the new nvidia driver did but...yea i want to game on linux >.< any one got some status?

cs-cam · 05-17-2006, 09:25 PM

The 6800 has been supported by the nvidia drivers since, forever. Slight exaggeration maybe but it be worky long time now.

zensaber · 05-18-2006, 02:12 PM

the 6800gs agp only came out in january

cs-cam · 05-18-2006, 06:19 PM

That's true but irrelevant. It's still a 6800 and while the manufacturer might put some really, really cool letters after it, it's running the same chipset as any other 6800 out there and so is supported by the nvidia driver.

If you have any trouble installing the driver make sure you have the correct kernel source installed and a working compiler

zensaber · 05-18-2006, 08:01 PM

then why wasn't the driver working for me a few months ago with fedora 4 and every one else with a 6800gs agp trying to get it to work on linux

cs-cam · 05-18-2006, 08:14 PM

Uh oh, I see you know everything. Wow, that must be awesome dude.

zensaber · 05-18-2006, 11:24 PM

well i'm just speaking from experience and you know, searching topics on it