even when dropping down to the 15bpps as he stated?
wierd... thank gosh i'm sticking w/ the mdk setup then. glad to see they
(nvidia) finally released some drivers. quite enjoying the screensavers tho
(lol).
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Roger wrote:
>
> > thought it had to be xfree > 3.3.5 was needed. not a lower version.
> >
> > it looks pretty good as is. unless you saw a miraculous improvement, if it's
> > not broken, why break it? ...is it really easy to install, or do you have to
> > follow the instructions to the "T" on extracting to the seperate dirs, etc?
> >
> > don't have quake on it yet. would be nice.
> >
> > did pump my 19" to the 1600x1024 for the xscreensavers (opengl ones), they look
> > better than the windows screensavers. can't wait for better accell tho.
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> > > Roger wrote:
> > >
> > > > Was the mdk 7.0 distro published with the "compiled drivers" for the Geforce
> > > > Video Card from the nvidia site or do we (the user) have to goto the nvidia
>site
> > > > and d/l the code and compile it on our own?
> > > >
> > > > In other words, does the 7.0 simply have a patched version of teh svga or is it
> > > > the actual thing from nvidia?
> > > >
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> > >
> > > You have to uninstall XFree 3.3.6 then install 3.3.5. Then run the riva_install.
> > > This works great for me accept the glx driver only gives me 23fps on Quake3 in
> > > 800x600:( I have a dual P3 500 and a Geforce running cooker. Can't wait for their
> > > next release.
> > >
> > > Later
> > > Keith
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> Actually the gl screensavers don't display right with the new nvidia drivers and they
> tend to lock up the whole pc.
>
> Keith
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