Geforce FX 5500 compatable or not?

dragoncorp.org · 04-15-2006, 12:00 PM

is the geforce FX 5500 video card compatable with redhat linux shrike. if not is there a program i can use to change to my onboard video card, i cannot see anything after boot if that helps?

dinolinux · 04-15-2006, 04:07 PM

Hi

GeForce FX 5550 is compatible with Linux. RedHat Linux 9 (Shrike) is a bit old though. You should really consider moving to never distributions like Fedora: http://fedora.redhat.com.

You could always try to install drivers for your nVIDIA card. Get the drivers from: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-8756.html.
The installation is pretty easy and there are good docs about how to install the drivers. If that fails, you probably need to upgrade.

dragoncorp.org · 04-15-2006, 10:20 PM

thanks will look into it.

hsimah · 04-16-2006, 04:46 AM

I can say it worked splendidly with Slackware. I have one in my desktop machine, plugged into the YV to watch movies on.