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From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  nvidia card swap
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:46:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701211546.45833.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070121T024840-302@post.gmane.org>

On Sunday 21 January 2007 02:49, James wrote:
> hello,
>
> I have a system using  this card:
>  "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
>
> and I want to use this card:
> "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
>
> to hopefully get more perfomance on  3D applications.
>
> Can I just swap the hardware or do I have to edit
> (xorg.conf) and recompile some software, such as
> xorg-server ?
>
>
> ideas?

just replace them. If you have not done anything stupid in xorg.conf, 
everything will work.

About the drivers: even the legacy drivers can drive the 5200 so there is no 
need to do anything.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-21 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-21  1:49 [gentoo-user] nvidia card swap James
2007-01-21  2:08 ` Rumen Yotov
2007-01-21  3:18   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2007-01-21  3:50   ` »Q«
2007-01-21  4:49     ` Dale
2007-01-21  7:05       ` Norberto Bensa
2007-01-21  7:31         ` Dale
2007-01-21 14:46 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin [this message]
2007-01-22 16:25   ` James

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