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Old 06-17-2005, 06:34 PM   #1
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not sure if these nvidia drivers are what i need

Basically I have a geoforce fx 5200 8x agp on fedora core 3. I assumed that the following is the driver i need.
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7664-pkg1.run
what does the x86 mean. I have a athlon xp 3gig
 
Old 06-17-2005, 07:54 PM   #2
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That would be the one you are looking for.

The "x86" refers 32bit...386,486,586,686,athlon
The "x86_64" refers to 64bit.....Opteron,Athlon 64, Intel w/EM64T
 
Old 06-17-2005, 10:24 PM   #3
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ok thanks.
 
  


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