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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:08:29 -0700
From: Thomas A Webb <tawebb AT earthlink DOT net>
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I cannot speak as an expert on Debian, We have our own distribution, and 
our experience with the commercial distributions has been mostly with 
Slackware. However, I suspect that the issues are similar.

If your card is AGP, load the agp module [or compile it in if you are 
going to do a kernel build] at boot time. I load it in the rc.modules 
script.

The program "xf86config" points to a generic nvidia module, which you 
can load; I don't know whether that supports all the 3d/acceleration 
features or not.. You can also probably use the "vesa svga" driver and 
get good performance for most purposes. If you are a gamer, I would try 
the generic nvidia driver, as it may handle the whiz-bang features 
better. If it turns into a life and death struggle, use the program 
"xf86cfg". It pokes and prods and does the best it can using "Plug and 
Pray" methods.

The particular flavor of linux you are running isn't very relevant here. 
The video driver links into the kernel and uses no libraries. Depending 
on how the kernel was built, you may need to override the version check, 
  if you download and use binary drivers.

Robert Mergy Sr. wrote:
> I want to put Dabian GNU/linux on one of my computers. The video card in 
> the box is a Mad Dog Product  MD-FX5200PCI. MadDog does not have a 
> driver. The video proccessor is a NVIDIA and I went to their web site 
> and found Linux drivers, but none were listed for the Debian 
> distribution. Can anyone help?  Bob
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