nvidia legacy driver
 

I'm thinking about installing Fedora 4 or 5 on a old Gateway computer. The video adapter is an old nVidia GeForce 256 with only 32mb of Ram. I've been Googling about using yum and Livna repo to download nVidia drivers. I also came across nVidia legacy packages for Fedora. Would I be able to install nVidia drivers via the legacy rpms. Or would I be better off getting a new video card?

Thanks.

if you don't want anything special the generic nv driver would run your card fine, you won't need to install any drivers yourself at all.

Livna has Nvidia legacy drivers for FC4. But I don't see them for FC5.

I'm mainly wondering about dvd playback quality (eg. using xine or mplayer) and streaming video from net. Maybe I willjust try the generic nv drivers first and find out.