Linux Incompatibility List
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True, however, their video cards *DO* work on linux (even though it is binary-only). I have a laptop that has the chip. Does any broadcom wireless chip work on linux (ndis wrapper or that piece of junk from linuxant doesn't count)
No, they do NOT work on Linux.
They work on current versions of linux-x86 and linux-x86_64.
To "work on linux" without qualification, they have work (or be fixable to work) work on any port of Linux which can reasonably plug the hardware in.
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True, however, their video cards *DO* work on linux (even though it is binary-only). I have a laptop that has the chip. Does any broadcom wireless chip work on linux (ndis wrapper or that piece of junk from linuxant doesn't count)
No, they do NOT work on Linux.
They work on current versions of linux-x86 and linux-x86_64.To "work on linux" without qualification, they have work (or be fixable to work) work on any port of Linux which can reasonably plug the hardware in.
The specific card in my laptop does work with XFree's latest nVidia drivers, just not in 3D mode. It would be a card I'd stay away from, but unlike broadcom, the cards *DO* work to some extent. (That card is a GeForce2 Go)
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The specific card in my laptop does work with XFree's latest nVidia drivers, just not in 3D mode. It would be a card I'd stay away from, but unlike broadcom, the cards *DO* work to some extent. (That card is a GeForce2
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Mine is a Geforce FX (Toshiba Satellite M30), and Xorg (Fedora Core 2) works (sort of). I don't see any use for 3D on a laptop, so just 2D is no problem to me. But I haven't been able to get 1280x800 working right (it does a distorted 1024x768), so I use nVidia's driver (which has its own problems, if you install it for one kernel it breaks for the others).
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does a distorted 1024x768), so I use nVidia's driver (which has its own problems, if you install it for one kernel it breaks for the others).
Instread of rerunning the full installer everytime you can use --extract-only. Then run the installer in and for new kernels cd down to <installerdir>/usr/src/nv and make install. That won't delete the module for other kernels. If paranoid, touch *.c first.
-- robin