Yes, Mageia started out with nouveau....didn't check but I imagine Mint, etc. does too.01micko wrote:James C,funny my card is an 8400GS too, works perfectly, I think from memory Jim1911 has (or had) one too. Actually nouveau should work with that card, I bet mageia is using it at first (as root do an lsmod to see if nouveau kernel module is loaded to see). Most will notice that nouveau is removed from this release.
As for the athlon with the old nvidia, I can't test that 96.xx driver, sorry. However if you get the kernel source you can compile it yourself.. since you have done so well at the prompt thus far
I have an 8400 GS on another box and all these Pups work fine on it. Must just be something strange in the mobo/videocard combo.
The Athlon XP box.......cpu's not maxed out now. Guess it was worth all that difficult compiling.........
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 311.37
Chip description:
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2
Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia
Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: " 1440x900 " Depth: Depth 24
...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video