nvidia 8200 chipset

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

steve wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is anyone familiar with msi k9n2gm board with nvidia 8200 chipset?  Just
> built a new mythbox with this, and Ive had better luck and performance
> with an athlon xp and a 5200 card. (bought most everything from newegg,
> and believe it or not had excellent linux reviews the only reason i
> chose it) sad, because this box should be smokin fast, 3.2 ghz athlon
> x2, and 4 gig ram but I cant get any accelerated driver to work
> properly, theres 3 that show up in hardware drivers 173 180 and some
> other one.  All I get is a garbled screen on all, have to kill gdm,
> change nvidia to nv in xorg to get x back again, but only 640x480 on my
> 42" lcd, looks ridiculous.
>
> using 8.10, which may be my first mistake, all other machines are 8.04
> and run without a hiccup...anyone have this 8200 chipset on 8.10?  and
> what driver do you use? an older one?

I'm running 8.10 on a NVidia 8200 chipset "gamer" board (XFX - GeForce 
8200).

At first had problems to recognize HD drives because the 8200 chipset is 
new and still not supported. It took a couple of days, almost gave up 
and changed the board, but finally installed Ubuntu and found out that 
the inexpensive board works very well, it is indeed fast, specially if 
you enable AHCI instead of SATA before installation. You might have some 
problems with audio but this can also be managed.

Regarding video config, I first installed the recommended driver from 
Synaptic (177 works for me, 180 probably but haven't tested yet) and 
then activated it at System/Adm/Hardw Drv.
Later upgraded to 177.82 at NVidia.

Remember to install NVidia X Server Settings for managing.

There are newer versions of the drivers at the NVidia site, they should 
be installed after GDM is closed. A lot of info about this can be found 
at the NVidia site.

I have 8.10 AMD64 and 8.04 i386 partitions but I'm running mostly with 
the original installation (8.10 i386).

Regards,

L.


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