In this topic, I will list all the links of different tutorials to install your 3D Acceleration Card on your preferred OS.

Ubuntu
Nvidia
- http://wiki.serios.net/wiki/Ubuntu_NVIDIA_proprietary_display_driver_installation

ATI
- ATI Proprietary display driver

Generic Cards
- http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/acceleration_graphique
- http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/envy (Enough practices)

Fedora Core
Nvidia
- http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/nvidia-bin

ATI
- http://fedorasolved.org/video-solutions/ati-yum-livna
- http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/

With the livna repository, more packages will be available, including graphic drivers.

OpenSuse
Nvidia
- http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA

ATI
- http://en.opensuse.org/ATI_Driver_HOWTO

Slackware & Zenwalk

Start by recovering Nvidia drivers according to your configuration (32bits or 64bits) at this address :

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

Ensure you have the sources of the kernel installed :


Then, in a console go in init 3 :


Then you go in the directory containing the script to install the drivers and launch it :


Follow the instructions on the screen then go in graphic mode :


Mandriva
ATI
Click here!

NVidia
Click here!

More to come ...

Edité par ryousuke

Cool post, mate !
Too bad, my laptop has no graphic card so I can't use your information...

My laptop too ... well it does have a graphic gpu but that's an old useless chip. Hopefully my desktop is way better ^^

Lol Pedroth, I have a ATI card, and the Graphic acceleration don't work ... i'm bored.

Was it really mandatory (or obligatory, I don't know which one is the most suitable, sorry for my english) to translate that topic ?
Indeed all links lead to french websites ... not very useful for english speaking people, isn't it?

bye

Well I translated quickly and I know that the links are in french. I have to search for links in english, but since I dont know much about linux it's taking me some time ^^

I can help you for openSUSE's links at least :

First, the NVIDIA link for openSUSE is easy to update : just replace the"fr" by "en" in the url.
Then, you can give this one: http://en.opensuse.org/ATI for ATI cards under openSUSE.

bye

Edité par Ghostofkendo

Thanks for your help

And for Ubuntu, can you talk about the "restricted drivers manager", please?

Here's a new version for AMD cards :
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_711_linux.html

@Cgizmo, what do you want to know about the restricted drivers in Ubuntu ?

Edité par ryousuke

Well, in ubuntu, to install proprietary drivers for graphic cards, and other components that only work with proprietary drivers, you can use the Restricted Drivers Manager.

It really easy to use, and i recommend it to ubuntu users.
To access it, go to System->Administration->Restricted Drivers Manager.

New Drivers out for AMD Cards :

x86 : http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/fr/linux/linux-radeon.html

x64 : http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/fr/linux64/linux64-radeon.html

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and I installed the Nvidia graphics drivers with EnvyNG.
EnvyNG can also install the ATI drivers in Ubuntu, would think it works on other linux distris too but I have only tried it on Ubuntu :P

Anyways, EnvyNG is for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) so if you have an older version you can use
Envy (without NG at the end). Same website and developer, easy to install and use.

Here's the link for Envy and EnvyNG
http://albertomilone.com/envyngfaq.html#A