Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-08-03 Thread Todd V . Rovito
Thus spake John Wheat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am new to Debian and relatively new to Linux and ask your help with this > God forsaken nVidia card. > I initially installed 2.2r0 and upgraded the system to 2.2r3 followed by a > dist-upgrade to Woody (for Xfree4.0.3). When I enter the command xf86c

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-08-01 Thread Casper Gielen
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:17:59PM -0700, der.hans wrote: > Am 30. Jul, 2001 schw?zte Geoffrey Romer so: > > > IP constraints. Convincing Nvidia that their value is in their hardware, > > not their APIs, and thereby convincing them to open-source the drivers > > they already have, seems like the m

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-31 Thread der.hans
Am 30. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Geoffrey Romer so: > IP constraints. Convincing Nvidia that their value is in their hardware, > not their APIs, and thereby convincing them to open-source the drivers > they already have, seems like the most viable option to me. Actually, the way I hear it nVidia believe

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> Weird. I thought using hardware acceleration would decrease it, not > increase it... Not really. Among other things, I think the video card's on-board memory shows up as system memory in some situations (including, apparently, this one). > Is the any chance in a future of an open source drive

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Brian May
> "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Geoffrey> I have the same problem. Here's a quote from the Geoffrey> xscreensaver FAQ: Geoffrey> ---snip--- Try editing your .xscreensaver file and Geoffrey> changing the memoryLimit setting to 0. Thanks for the sugge

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:54:12 -0700 "John Wheat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to Debian and relatively new to Linux and ask your help with > this > God forsaken nVidia card. > I initially installed 2.2r0 and upgraded the system to 2.2r3 followed by > a > dist-upgrade to Woody (for Xfree4.

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Johan
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:43:42AM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > > > Question: I have a RIVATNT2 card with 32Megs RAM, and I tried for the > > first time to use 3d graphics acceleration. > > > > It sort of works, but: > > > > a) I got this thick yellow (with black stripes) vertical line that >

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> Question: I have a RIVATNT2 card with 32Megs RAM, and I tried for the > first time to use 3d graphics acceleration. > > It sort of works, but: > > a) I got this thick yellow (with black stripes) vertical line that > appears in the bottom right hand of the screen. That's odd... I don't recogni

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Gael Pegliasco
Hello, I've installed the testing distribution on a new machine yesterday with a GeForce2 MX card. First, if you just install xserver-xfree86 and xserver-common you should be able to run X with the default config file. In my case this works fine. Then, if you want to modify your XF86Config-4 fil

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Brian May
> "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Geoffrey> In addition, you probably want the nvidia-kernel-src and Geoffrey> nvidia-glx-src packages. The documentation for those Geoffrey> packages (in /usr/doc/package-name) should explain how Geoffrey> to install the

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-30 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> I am new to Debian and relatively new to Linux and ask your help with this > God forsaken nVidia card. > I initially installed 2.2r0 and upgraded the system to 2.2r3 followed by a > dist-upgrade to Woody (for Xfree4.0.3). When I enter the command xf86cfg the > command is unrecognized. I have ne

Re: nVidia users help needed

2001-07-29 Thread David Turetsky
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:54:12PM -0700, John Wheat muttered: --> I am new to Debian and relatively new to Linux and ask your help with this --> God forsaken nVidia card. --> --> --> --> -- --> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

nVidia users help needed

2001-07-29 Thread John Wheat
I am new to Debian and relatively new to Linux and ask your help with this God forsaken nVidia card. I initially installed 2.2r0 and upgraded the system to 2.2r3 followed by a dist-upgrade to Woody (for Xfree4.0.3). When I enter the command xf86cfg the command is unrecognized. I have never been ab