I might install a PNY nVidia GEFORCE GT 610 (PCIe) video card in my mother’s computer. It’s a Dell Inspiron 570, with an ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated video chip. My question is this: do I need to uninstall any drivers before plugging in the nVidia card? I usually plug one in before installing openSuse, so that takes care of everything. This is the first time I’ve upgraded the video after installing. Also, will I need to install any nVidia related packages after? Or is there some other method for switching over? Or does it magically fix everything for me?
Edit: I’m using the open source driver now, and will use nouveau for the nVidia. My mother doesn’t play games.
Hi
You will need to visit the BIOS and set the display to the PCIe slot rather than onboard card. Aside from that it should fire up fine with the nouveau driver. Then can install the proprietary driver.
Ok, that’s good, thanks! I looked on my pc, the other one is off for the night, and saw vdpau-video and xf86-video-nv drivers are not installed (I have integrated Radeon, too). I assume that’s the case with my mother’s computer. Do I install those myself?
On Tue 06 Sep 2016 02:16:01 AM CDT, HighBloodSugar wrote:
malcolmlewis;2791527 Wrote:
> Hi
> You will need to visit the BIOS and set the display to the PCIe slot
> rather than onboard card. Aside from that it should fire up fine with
> the nouveau driver. Then can install the proprietary driver.
Ok, that’s good, thanks! I looked on my pc, the other one is off for the
night, and saw vdpau-video and xf86-video-nv drivers are not installed
(I have integrated Radeon, too). I assume that’s the case with my
mother’s computer. Do I install those myself?
Hi
The xf86-video-nouveau should be installed (by default?) to get you
going.
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Today I installed the nVidia card, and the motherboard immediately detected it, there is no setting in BIOS for that. It’s automatically detected and the on-board chip is disabled. Pretty cool! I didn’t have to install anything either, it just works. Sure beats the old days when most things had to be manually configured! (I’m talking about my first PC, an 8088 with 1 MB of RAM. I got a hard drive for it later, what a nightmare configuring that!)
