Kitsep |
08-08-2019 12:00 AM |
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Originally Posted by Reziac
(Post 6022349)
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Drivers do exist, but only for older versions of Linux. Nvidia stopped active driver support for the FX line of video cards (note: desktop, the FX quadro cards continued for some time) around 2013/14, and thus no modern linux distro will run that driver without modifications. I -could- fire up Ubuntu 12 and that would load it just fine, yes. I was just trying to see if modern linux versions would work on this computer and the answer is yes AND no. Yes they work, but No not with full compatibility. This computer feels pretty snappy until you try to do something that requires hardware acceleration. The only way that driver (which I'm 99% sure is for Debian) would work is if it were modified.
I could be wrong, but I remember loading up a Ubuntu 14 game in Ubuntu 16 when that first came out, and the game didn't work right, had all kinds of graphical glitches. The developer updated the game relatively quickly, but apply that same situation to this driver. Yes it might load, but it was written for an older kernel, it might rely on code that no longer exists, or might interface with new code in an unpredictable way. I'm willing to give it a shot, but odds aren't in my favor :P
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