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2/14/07 at 10:13pm
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I was a bit worried because Ubuntu 6.10 claimed to not know what my graphics card was. Although https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupp...deoCardsNvidia
lists 7950 so presumably the 2500 (both are G71 cored) should also be known?

Here is the relevant line from lspci:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 029a (rev a1

although, it ran in 2D at full resolution anyway (one up compared to Windows in the same situation, which leaves you in 640x480 16-color hell).

It turned out that I needed to do a bit more RTFM which in this case was here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bi...erHowto/Nvidia

to install linux-restricted-modules and also sudo nvidia-xconfig to get it to configure itself.

Well, it works now. Actually I am impressed: the output from glxinfo confirms

OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: Quadro FX 2500M/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.0.2 NVIDIA 87.76

So, OpenGL 2.0 with a bunch of extensions - including NURBS support (GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator).

Less succesful trying to tell the Ubuntu hardware database about things, though
http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/?xml=73ad3a3c...27402f4d5701c6

"Couldnt detect laptop
(assuming Desktop)"

yeah, right.
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