Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended

2001-05-30 Thread hellmut
Hi! I have a K6-2, 450 mhz, 256 megs ram and an ELSA Erazor III Pro videocard (TNT 2 chip). I also installed the RPM's for Mandrake 8 and it runs very well, only one time the X-server lost connection and dropped me to a shell. Games are also working very fine. Do you have Mandrake 8 and XFree 4.0

Re: [newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended

2001-05-30 Thread Sal Portillo
Hello You might try the following guide: http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00022.asp It explains how to install the Nvidia drivers from tar files. Thsi skips the rpm's which might have been built for a different kernel. also check out the Linux newbie site: http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/

[newbie] Nvidia Drivers, what's reccomended

2001-05-30 Thread John W
I have tried the nvidia kernel and GLX 1.xx drivers and cannot run any games other than the standard penguin comand and the *tris variants with the exception of Chromium. What a well designed game by the way. Reminds me of my days as a kid in the arcades. When I try mesa gears or reflection it