Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Barkingmad]

Hello

I'm needing a cheap replacement graphics card for my P4 box.

I've seen this one which seems to be based on the Nvidea GT210 processor and need to know if it will a) work and b) work well with Puppy Precise?

There seem to be some references to using this core with Ubuntu so I hoped there might be a chance but wanted to ask before buying.

Thanks for any help -- the more I try to read-up about Puppy graphics drivers the more confused I seem to get

Will

[p310don]

I have the same Nvidia chip in my PC. Works a treat.

It will work with the default drivers, there are probably precompiled nvidia drivers for your puppy and you can compile the driver yourself easily.

All methods will work.

[mikeb]

I believe they were aimed at the profession graphics market so on windows you may get locked out unless you have the OEM driver...or something along those lines...the geoforces were the cheaper commersial releases of the same but with feature limited chips...again just a rough description.
This may be why they are cheaper...got stung by a ATI card like that but managed to hack the windows driver in the end.

On linux if you want full features (3D) you need nvidias proprietry driver... though nouveau is not too bad now.... hopefully there will be no such problems ...am posting as i am curious myself.

mike

[Barkingmad]

hello

Mike
The card I am looking at seems to be sold as a low-end deskto/home entertainment market product - it sells for ~£20 here in the UK. windows drivers seem to be available for XP up to 8.1 from the Asus website.

Anyone
I have now been able to confirm that I'm using (according to Hardinfo) Precise 5.7.1 with kernal 3.9.11.

Any other opinions on this graphics chip on this set up before I order?

Thanks
Will

[mikeb]

Hmm i might be getting mixed up with the (older) NVS range which go really cheap second hand...usually pulls from Business machines like those half height compaqs... so what you are after sounds like there will be no problem

Strike my comment from the record and enjoy.

Mike

[bigpup]

The cards specs say it needs PCI-Express 2.0 interface

Does your computer have that?

It will probably work OK if all you have is PCI-Express 1.0 interface.

PCIe 2.0 cards are also generally backward compatible with PCIe 1.x motherboards, using the available bandwidth of PCI Express 1.1

So, if you only have PCI-Express 1.0 interface. The card may not run at it's max bandwidth.

PCI Express Bandwidth
PCIe 1.0a, with a per-lane data rate of 250 MB/s and a transfer rate of 2.5 gigatransfers per second (GT/s).

2.0 standard doubles the transfer rate compared with PCIe 1.0 to 5 GT/s and the per-lane throughput rises from 250 MB/s to 500 MB/s.

[James C]

I have 2 boxes running that card. The nouveau driver works fine in every Puppy version I've tried.The Nvidia driver is available for some Pups as well.

Pretty good low-budget card.

[Barkingmad]

Hello

James C:

[Barkingmad]

Hello

I'm back, card installed and working -- Puppy came stright up and "just worked" - hows this look.