Which nVidia drivers?

[c4nad14n]

On the nVidia website, theres linux IA32, IA64 and AMD64 drivers. What is the difference between them? I have a Duron, with a ti4200. Which ones should i download?

[fancypiper]

Download the NVchooser.sh and run that. That script will tell you which ones to download.
nVidia Driver Installation NHF (http://3dguios.resnet.mtu.edu/nVidia-NHF.html)
nVidia driver page (http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4191)
New board thread (http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82563)

[Icarus]

IA32 - Intel based 32bit CPU (Pentiums, Duron, Athlons...)

IA64 - Intel based 64bit CPU (Itanium is all I can think of...)

AMD64 - AMD based 64bit CPU (Not yet officially released, Hammer series)

More then likely you'll want the IA32, unless we are all super jelious of your systm ;)

Download the .tar.gz files from the bottom of the download page

[davo]

Yesterday I had a most unplesant experience with NVchooser.sh. It told me I needed the 2960 GLX and kernel files. After a couple hours of pranking with it I downloaded the 3123 files that I had used with my previous kernel and badda-bing, badda-boom it worked first try.

Don't know why it told me to use the 2960 when I had only upgraded my kernel. Both support my card. I'm running Red Hat 8.0, and upgraded from 2.4.18-17.8.0 to 2.4.18-19.8.0. (Attempting to get to 2.4.20, but that's another post;) )

Don't forget to go to the forum at nVidia's site. Good info there.

[rooty]

Currently 3123 are the best. 4191 have issues with Gnome and it's rendering engine.

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by davo
Don't know why it told me to use the 2960 when I had only upgraded my kernel. Because you were using the NVchooser downloaded from the 2960 page, not the one from the 3123 page.

:)