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model: GeForce 8500GT(model id: 40)
vendor:
NVIDIA
VendorID:ProductID code of the device:
year of commercialization:
not-specified
interface:
PCI-E
tested on:
Trisquel 4.0 Taranis
tested with the following kernel libre:
2.6.32-24-generic
how does it work with free software?
works, but without 3D acceleration
free driver used:
Description:
This video card works excellent in Trisquel 4.0 whit the "nouveau" driver, but whitout 3D aceleration. 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: Kingtston 2GB (667 MHZ) DDR2. HD: Western Digital 320GB SATAII. Monitor: LG Flatron W1943SE 19" LCD.
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