wine users - Jan 2010 - How to choose a friendly-wine video card?

Hi all,
first of all i m sorry for my english
i have an ati4850 and i m tired of ati linux drivers (they are getting better,
but i want to play some games now...)
I want to change my card to an nvidia, but i don t know if all the nvidia card
are good for wine or some are better...
i remeber (some moths ago) i tested a zotac 9800gtx and the drivers couldn t
manage the cooler, while i read they could in the xfx 9800 ...

I believe that at this point, any card which uses the current nvidia driver will
do fine. I use a GeForce 8800 GT on my main PC and a GeForce 9600M on my laptop,
and they work well with what's implemented so far in WINE.

ok, do you just use "last" driver or they have regression ?

> ok, do you just use "last" driver or they have regression ?
>
I am using 190.53 on my 8400GS. No problems with that.

John

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jim Hall <volunteer.jim at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:17 PM

Type in "nvidia.com" in your browsers address bar.

If you see a video of a guy on a rocket sled, click on it (you can
come back later and watch it).

At the top of the page is a "Download" tab. Mouse over and click on
"Download Drivers".

In the "Product Type:" choose the category your card fits in (ex.:
mine is 'GeForce').

In the "Product Series":choose the series of your card (ex. : mine is
a '9600 GT' so I choose 'GeForce 9 Series').

The site has probably already filled in your Operating System and
Language. If they are wrong, change them.

Click on the green "SEARCH" button.

Click on the link for "Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris Drivers"

Under "Linux IA 32" choose "Latest Version: 190.53". At
least that's
the version number for today. Click on the link.

Click the green "DOWNLOAD" button.

Click on the green "AGREE & DOWNLOAD" button.

You should have the file on your hard drive.

I made the previous steps and the following instructions to help
people I introduce to Linux. I run Debian Lenny. This is only a guide
(ex.: your run level numbers may be different). As is usual with
Linux, feel free to adapt this to your situation if you need/want to
use them.


Install Nvidia binary driver instructions ? short version

If you have just updated anything to do with the kernel, reboot before
starting even if the update didn't require it.

When you must type a command, ignore the quote marks.

1?? Using normal account, download driver from Nvidia site and put it
in it's own directory under ?DOWNLOADS?.

2?? Log out of normal account and log in as root.

3?? Backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

4?? Change to run level 3: Type ?ctrl+alt+F3?

5?? Log in as root

6?? Type ?/etc/init.d/gdm stop? (you will be asked to login again)

7?? Type ?export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1?

8?? Type ?cd /home/normal account/DOWNLOADS/directory where driver is?

9?? Type ?sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-xxx.xx-pkg1.run?

10? Type ?/etc/init.d/gdm start?

11? Exit root

12? Change to run level 2: Type ?ctrl+alt+F2?

13? Reboot


Enjoy,
Jim




-- 
John M. Drescher

Depending on the distribution he is using, he should not need to download the
binary driver from NVIDIA. There should be a compiled binary for him to use with
his package manager.

Das Letzte Einhorn wrote:
> Depending on the distribution he is using, he should not need to download
the binary driver from NVIDIA. There should be a compiled binary for him to use
with his package manager.
Except packagers for some distros keep forgetting to package 32-bit libraries,
which "break"all 32-bit apps, including Wine  (force use of indirect
or software rendering which is significantly slower).