It's been a while since I'd read the docs, but I'm sure I'd
installed it on the recommendation set there. Evidently, it was
necessary in RH 6.0 for me to play the one accelerated game I
could even compile -- Quake II. It also had a positive effect in
lm7.2, as I can now get acceleration in a f
Isn't glide for 3dfx based video cards ?
Meph Istopheles wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Don't really wanna "horn" in, but I've a simillar situation
> with my Diamond Viper 770D (it's got the tnt2 chip). With
> XFree4.01 it's almost dead. I'd installed the glide module &
> some games picked up, but (I s
Hey Nev,
> Sorry for butting in as well - but I too have a diamond viper
> 770 and I just came off SuSE to mandrake. In SuSE I had to
> download the latest drivers nvdriver.rpm and nv_glx.rpm and
> activate the 3D part of it in the XF86Config - and ensure the
> nvidia was selected in preferenc
; Joseph Red
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> From: "Meph Istopheles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:52 AM
> Subject: RE: [newbie] problem with nvidia
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From: "Meph Istopheles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:52 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64
> Hey,
>
> Don't really wanna "horn" in, but I've a
Hey,
Don't really wanna "horn" in, but I've a simillar situation
with my Diamond Viper 770D (it's got the tnt2 chip). With
XFree4.01 it's almost dead. I'd installed the glide module &
some games picked up, but (I suppose those not using glide) are
unchanged. Switched to the other XFree 3.x
I had the same problem, with the same type of video card...
try these steps (worked for me):
1. Get some more RAM! I bought an extra 64 MB and the speed improved a little
2. Disable non-essential start up services
3. Get the latest Nvidia drivers from their site (AND READ THE README!)
Unfortun
On Thursday 11 January 2001 11:46, you wrote:
> it's so damn slow
> under ms windows its really fast please help me out
hehe, you aren't exactly giving us much info here, it's like "I have bought a
new computer, but now I can't open the text-editor, what's wrong?" :)
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\ Christian A Strømmen
