That exchange was off list! Curse you google reply to default! If it's a very new chipset, definitely go with the latest stable release. But I didn't give any link... <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 29, 2014 7:55 PM, "Gene Heskett" <<a href="mailto:gheskett@wdtv.com">gheskett@wdtv.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Wednesday 29 January 2014 ... did write: > I'm no expert. I just saw gt218 and guessed it was an old chipset, > probably EOL'd. I don't know squat about nouveau. Maybe an older > nouveau would do it? Sorry I can't help more. > > Elliot NP, Elliot and thanks. The link you sent took me to the nouveau site, and the NV50 is a whole new chipset that it might be easier to drive with a brand new driver. It has several things the older chipsets don't, but nouveau full support for the new features is not noted either. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <<a href="http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene" target="_blank">http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene</a>> </blockquote></div>