This article talk about graphics card installations. Installation can use two stages which are driver installation and device configuration. Sometimes, videocards are detected automatically (native support) but 3D acceleration support often need proprietary driver.
This part shows a list of hardware ordered by manufacturer. The full list of all chipsets can be found on Wikipedia: chipset documentation page. If you don't know your graphic card visit hardware identification page to identify your card.
Technical words can be used but explained.
ATI
The free driver from X.org in Squeeze supports all ATI Radeon cards with 2D support. 3D support for R6xx, RV6xx and R7xx is still labeled as experimental and has been reverse-engineered.
The radeonhd driver supports video cards based on:
- R500 style hardware: R5xx, RV5xx, RS6xx, RS740, M52 and up
- R600 style hardware: R6xx, RV6xx, RS780, M64 and up
- R700 style hardware: RV7xx
See supported chipsets in radeonhd git HEAD for up to date detail information - http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/plain/README
There's also a proprietary driver from ATI, which is available in non-free.
How to install ATI videocard (with 3D graphics support)
Intel
nVidia
nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)
- PCI Id: 10de:0171
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nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3)
nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7300 GT] (rev a1)
nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GS] (rev a1)
nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1)
nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)
nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1)
nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1)
nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT (rev a1)
nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT (rev a1)
- nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1)
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