Dan, I have been following the various threads
concerning nVidia drivers. I was hesitant to use the
1.0 drivers at first, but they ended up being my best
option and work great for me. Tuxracer and Chromium
look great full screen. I followed the instructions
from nVidia for the 1.0 drivers using the mdk rpm's.
In my case the only problem I am having is getting it
to let me use 32 bit color instead of 24 bit, which
isn't that big of a concern, but would be nice. I did
use the nv_check.sh script to verify my installation,
and I had to change my /etc/X11/X link because in my
case Linux kept wanting to use XFree86 3.3.6 and I had
to force it to use 4.0.3 by linking X to
/user/X11R6/bin/XFree86.
TC
--- Dan Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Terry--
>
> I don't know if you've been following it here on the
> list, but I've been
> having a heck of a time getting GL to work properly
> in full-screen GL mode
> using a GeForce2 MX AGP card under Mandrake 8.
>
> I suspect you're where I am: X is clearly using the
> nVidia drivers, stuff's
> generally looking good, windowed GL things run just
> great, but the minute you
> do something full screen all hell busts loose.
>
> If you DO have fullscreen GL working, though, I'd
> love to hear about it. In
> particular, what happens when you run tuxracer? If
> you don't know, I request
> you try it! And if you hang at a big black screen,
> ctrl-alt-del and 'esc'
> will get you back, if you're patient.
>
> Let us know! I know I'm not the only one eager to
> hear that it works for
> somebody!
>
> --Dan
>
> On Sunday 22 July 2001 12:40 am, you wrote:
> > I have just installed the 1.0 nVidia drivers and
> they
> > are working great except for one thing. When I
> first
> > tried to startx after the installation and
> modifying
> > XF86Config-4 the attempt failed. It said that the
> > chipset did not support the color depth I had set
> up,
> > which was 32 bit color. I changed XF86Config-4 to
> > select 24 bit color and everything works fine. I
> know
> > my geforce2 MX will support 32 bit color, so what
> do I
> > have to do to make it work?
> > Thanks to civileme for his assistance earlier in
> > getting my install of 8.0 to use, and stay with
> > XFree86 4.0.3.
> >
> > TC
> >
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