quot;Robin Regennitter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Video card question?
> On Sunday 03 December 2000 06:56, you wrote:
>
> Mandrake v7.2 doesnt always get automagically. There seems to be a
On Sunday 03 December 2000 06:56, you wrote:
Mandrake doesnt always autodetect the videocard. I have a built in i810
videochip and Mandrake has detected that with no prob. I've tried voodoo3
PCI after 7.2 came out and XFDrake get so tied up with i810 and it wouldnt
detect my PCI video card.
On Sunday 03 December 2000 06:56, you wrote:
Mandrake v7.2 doesnt always get automagically. There seems to be a thing
with XFdrake distinguishing between AGP and PCI. I have a built in i810 and
I have installed both PCI Voodoo3 2000 and PCI ATI All in Wonder in seperates
times. At first I
Well, the neato clock at the graphical login screen goes haywire. Some
of the KDE games don't work right or at all. Uh, there are a few others
but I can't remember them right now. Nothing pivotal really. Atleast
as far as my usage goes. I don't know what applications you use
regularly though.
sure, why not.
I have a voodoo5. I use the drivers from http://linux.3dfx.com. They
have a very nice step by step on that website with the files that you
need right there. Here are my major steps.
1. download files: in my case those are:
tdfx_dri-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm
tdfx_drm-1.
On Sunday 03 December 2000 15:56, you wrote:
> Hmm, okay...I'm a little confused now. I thought that with Xfree 4.01 and
> Mandrake v7.2, if your video card is supported, then you get automagically
> installed hardware acceleration? Is that not right?
It is correct if your video card is decent ha
Unfortunately you do not automagically get hardware acceleration w x
4.0.1 and mandrake 7.2. I had to use the same procedures to make it
work that I used with 7.0 and 7.1.
I've got an A7V (Via KT13) and linux works great on it.
Abe
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
>
> Hmm, okay...I'm a little confuse
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
>Hmm, okay...I'm a little confused now. I thought that with Xfree 4.01 and
>Mandrake v7.2, if your video card is supported, then you get automagically
>installed hardware acceleration? Is that not right?
Depends. If you upgrade from 3.3.6. a copy of the
