[LAU] Switching the distro

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 11:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 3) If you OWN the 7200GS already, then plug it in and get the
> 270.41.19 (or higher) driver. It should work.

Correct! I own this graphics, it's already mounted and working, for the
installs on my machine.

Ubuntu NATTY
$ ls /usr/src
[snip]
nvidia-current-270.41.06

Ubuntu MAVERICK
$ ls /mnt/maverick/usr/src
[snip]
nvidia-173-173.14.28
nvidia-current-270.41.06

openSUSE 11.2
$ ls /mnt/suse11.2/usr/src
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.15-pkg2.run

I'll switch the distro and it was mentioned that the current version of
X might not work with proprietary NVIDIA drivers anymore, resp. I read
something on the Arch Linux homepage, they excluded the proprietary
NVIDIA drivers, regarding to this issue.

A misunderstanding.

> I've dumped ATI here completely as I'm interested in the CUDA
> capabilities in the NVidia line for other projects. I.e. - my video
> cards aren't just video cards to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA indeed seems to be interesting for
coders who are able to use it, but not for me :).

The 7200 / 7300 seems not to support CUDA, but some cards that
second-hand cost less money seems to support it. it's understandable
that you like it.

Cheers!

Ralf