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model: GeForce 8500 GT(model id: 40)
vendor:
NVIDIA
VendorID:ProductID code of the device:
10de:0421
year of commercialization:
not-specified
interface:
PCI-E
tested on:
Trisquel 4.0 Taranis
Trisquel 4.5 Slaine
tested with the following kernel libre:
2.6.32-24-generic
how does it work with free software?
works with 3D acceleration
free driver used:
noveau
Description:

This video card works well in Trisquel 4.5 with the "nouveau" driver and with 3D acceleration.

Note:

The brand of this video card is XFX, and they make 2 differents models of this card. One with 512MB of memory ( DDR 2 ) and other one ( the one i have ) with 1GB of memory ( DDR2 ) with "Turbo-Cache" technology.

This is the hardware setup that i used to make the test:

Motherboard: ASROCK Wolfdale1333-D667.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2,53GHZ.

RAM: Kingston 2GB (667 MHZ) DDR2.

HD: Western Digital 320GB SATAII.

Monitor: LG Flatron W1943SE 19" LCD.

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