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Brother-brian
07-17-2009, 08:11 PM
I have read all the tuts i could find, but still cant get card to work.

I am running Ubuntu 8.10, on a P3 board, 1.4g cpu, 756 RAM.
Video card is Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti-200 64mb card.

Nvidia website doesnt seem to offer support for this card anymore, not even archived.

I was using this computer to play Regnum when I first started, and it was running under WinXp, so I know its good.

I go to the hardware drivers section, and i got the propritary driver for nvidia (96 i think), the only one on the list, and it was also the "recommended" driver.

I got Regnum to get to the login screen, and to the loading screen, but the image is much larger than the monitor can display. It appears to be about 40% larger than the monitor screen or so. I went to adjust display settings, and it was already set to the maximum, which was only 640x420, i think.

Be warned, I know nothing at all about compiling anything, command line or none of that, Im still a linux knube. The learning curve is much steeper than for windows. And I DONT want to go back to MS if I can help it.

platyna
07-18-2009, 12:10 PM
Post your graphic card PCI device ID - use scanpci or lspci -nn.

Regards.

Brother-brian
07-19-2009, 08:04 PM
too late... wife wanted windows back on it, so she could put purchased software on it.

Bummer.

platyna
07-20-2009, 08:34 AM
Dual boot, *hint* *hint*

Regards.

Brother-brian
07-21-2009, 08:06 AM
naw, HDD is on last legs as we speak. Prob couldnt handle it. It clicks a lot. But its running... for now...