There are those who would have you believe that Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > Recently I installed Branden's debs for X 4.0.1c (deb > http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/ woody/$(ARCH)/) because, frankly, > vga16 @ 640 x 480 sucks with a GeForce2 GTS card. > > So, now, woohoo, the desktop looks great and I don't spend much time > in the console. > > But my question is - I thought that I had to grab the Linux drivers > from the NVIDIA site to make things work; it seems I don't. > > /var/log/gdm says the NV driver supports the GeForce2 GTS. > > So, is it that for 3d I need the NVIDIA drivers? >
Yes, for accelerated GL support. > And what are some good apps for checking frame rates and also showing > off the power of the card? > Quake 3, Unreal Tournament
