Hi I downloaded and tried the new drivers last night, as well as the very impressive PDF file that is now available. My System (for reference I 'm only listing things related to the speed of graphics): AMD k6-2 550Mhz 384Megs of Ram Fujistu 14 Gig HDD GA-5AA (Gigabyte ALI) Mobo Geforce 2 MX I'm using the out the box Mandrake 8 kernel. Install of the drivers was fine. I used Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, Reflect, Gears, Morph and glTron before and after the upgrade as tests and they all worked fine. I used Gears to do a small before and after bench mark as well. Before (12.41 Version Drivers) (FPS are taken in 5 second groups for the first 15 seconds) 642.5 FPS 779.4 FPS 857.0 FPS. Which gives you an average of 759.6 FPS over the 15 seconds. After (15.12) 709.8 FPS 889.2 FPS 878.8 FPS Which gives you an average of 825.93 FPS over the 15 seconds. That means there is a 66.33 FPS increase between the different versions. There are also 2 new features that I found that I really liked. First there is now support for a hardware cursor shadow, I tried to get a screen shot of but northing takes screen shots of cursors, which looks really good. It takes time to get use to it. The other feature is now the ability to get your refresh rates straight from your monitors EDID, instead of the XFConfig-4 file.Which means you should not have refresh rate problems anymore, or problems with going into a resolution that your monitor doesn't support. On the whole it is worth the upgrade ;) ________________________________________ Robert MacLean ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike cola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 5:39 AM Subject: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512 > the new linux drivers Version: 1.0-1512 for nvidia cards are out now > at http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux .. > > im getting my geforce2mx next week so anyone already running these drivers? any feedback? > > thanks > mikecola > > > "...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big winner...!"- Trent "Double Down" (Vince Vaughn) > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com > Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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