What are you talking about?! MD 7.1 Supports Geforce 2 and 1 cards right
during install.
You can allways upgrade to 4.1.0 if you want..
markOpoleO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hignight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver
> Dominus Paparum wrote:
> >
> > quick question before I install LM, does it come with drivers for the
geforce2? i can download them from nvidia how do i install these drivers?
the file extention is .rpm what do i do with it?
> >
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> Dominus,
>
> First, do us all a favor and set your email client to wrap outgoing
> messages at 72 characters or less. Thanks. If your new to Linux and
> not comfortable working from a command line then forget about it for
> right now. I don't think any distro currently has support for Nvidia
> "built in". That may have already changed with the release Red Hat 7
> though. I'm sure Mandrake 7.2 will also support Nvidia cards out of the
> box. If you still feel up for a project here is what I did in a
> nutshell to get my Gforce working.
>
> A. Your gonna have to upgrade to XFree4.01
> .5 Almost forgot ... mv /etx/X11 and /usr/X11 to /etc/X11-old and
> /usr/X11-old
> 1. goto www.xfree86.org and download Xinstall.sh and extract
> 2. take a look at the readme files while your there
> 3. run 'sh Xinstall.sh' then download the correct binaries
> 4. install the binaries
> 5. run /usr/X11/bin/xf86config ... be sure to have your monitor manual
> handy
>
> B. Install the Nvidia drivers
> 1. Install the both rpm's ... no sweat here. I had to --nodeps one of
> them.
>
> C. Tweak XF86Config
> 1. Refer to the faq at Nvidia under linux drivers
> 2. I recall having to uncomment the glx line under modules
> 3. Had to change the driver from nv to nvidia
>
> voila ... your done for now. I'm just leaving my machine on inittab 3
> for now. Whenever I want to play a game I simply 'startx' and run the
> game from inside of twm which seems to be more stable then before I had
> a Nvidia card. Incedently, I'm also getting fairly significantly higher
> frame rates under this setting then under WinME.
>
> --
> Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4
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