On Thursday 02 December 2004 02:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > Yes, in order to get GLX running with a video card that has an
> > nvidia chipset, you have to run the binary nvidia drivers
> > available from either the Mandrake commercial packs, Club or
> > directly from nvidia.  You are using the free GPL driver called
> > nv, that does not support 3D acceleration.
>
>     This is the last time I'll try to correct this misinformation.
> The OSS 'nv' driver does indeed support GLX. What it does not do
> is DRI (direct rendering).  This has been the case for a few
> years now.  Mandrake 9.1 IIRC.

Then he simply has to install the mesa packages, but will still get poor 
performance.
-- 
/g

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