> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:55 PM > To: Dennis Myers > Cc: Newbie Linux-Mandrake > Subject: Re: [newbie] Video cards > > > Hi, > > I don't know what I am doing different, but I have an nVidia > GeForce II on > an card made by Asus (I think it is the V7700), and I have > ABSOLUTELY no > problems with it; in fact, I followed the directions that I found on > nVidia's page, and on MUO, and voila, fait accompli! I have > nice gfx, can > run OpenGL apps beautifully and couldn't be happier with it (which is > good, since I bought it very shortly after the GeForce II was > released, > when it was VERY expensive, and would be FURIOUS if I WAS having > difficulties!). > > Anyways, I was just posting this to let people who are on the > market know > that the GeForce II DOES work with LM8 (beautifully in fact), > and to give > hope to those I have seen posting here that they have had > difficulties, > and have relegated their GeForce II based vid cards to paper weights. > > As an aside, I did NOT use the drivers that came with LM8, > but downloaded > them from either nVidia or Asus site (I can't remember). I > have both the > src.rpm and the rpm, for both the kernel module and the > driver, and they > are all labelled as being for LM7.2, so what I did is: > > rpm --rebuild ladida.src.rpm > > Yes. But the the same will not work if you upgrade to 8.1. Read some of the Cooker post regarding the Nvidia drivers or try running the same card in other distros. I am glad you are happy with your card and congratulate you in being successful in getting the driver to work on your system. But even if they worked in most cases, which they do not, I would still not recommend that card for use in Linux. I do not mind having to configure hardware for it to work but I'll be damned if I am going to have to build drivers for it with no guarrantee that they will work just because the microsoft of the hardware world is too paranoid and such an ahole that they will only release binaries. I consider my GeForceII paperweight an educational tool from which knowledge was obtained and I intend to continue passing that knowledge to others. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. And for too many there are now no tomorrows.
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