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

Ubuntu
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 (requires login)

OpenSuse
Nvidia
- http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA - moved or deleted, try searching the wiki

ATI
- http://en.opensuse.org/ATI_Driver_HOWTO - moved or deleted, try searching the wiki

Slackware & Zenwalk

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

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

Make sure you have the kernel sources installed:
# netpkg kernelsource kernelheaders

Then, in a console, go to init 3:
# init 3

Then you go to the directory containing the script that installs the drivers and launch it:
# cd /home/user/
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run

Follow the instructions on the screen then go in graphic mode:
# init 4

More to come...


Salvatos: removed the dead and French links on 2010-09-06

Edited by Salvatos

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

Edited by 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 ?

Edited by 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

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

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

Here's a link on the Gentoo Wiki although it should be useful for more than just Gentoo Users

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml

It explains the Basics of What DRI is and a bit regarding drivers and the appropriate Kernel Options.
Also the commands used are all pretty much all generic commands and should work for any Distro that doesn't use a pre-compiled Kernel and covers X config

Edited by Phoenix_12

Well since nobody else did one, here is the RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux notes for ATI & nVIDIA. Basically you need elrepo & upgrade & update, then you blacklist appropriately, then install.

ATI:
http://xflinux.blogspot.com/2011/11/simplest-way-of-installing-ati-catalyst.html

nVIDIA:
https://sites.google.com/site/guenterbartsch/blog/installnvidiadriversoncentos6andrhel6

Locking This Post

Reason: Outdated info. Bug report now open to create a wiki/KB for information such as this, which will trickle down to the site as new info is added (as in, it will update the FAQ on this page as the wiki is updated). Again, this is if we go in this direction to have a wiki built.

For more info, refer to:

http://www.playonmac.com/en/issue-1944.html