On Sunday 02 December 2001 16:23, you wrote: > Thanks for the helps but like I says, I'm a RedHat whore because of the > lack of some of those interfaces. I tried using Yast2 for setup of my video > card and it puked on me when I chose a different set of NVIDIA drivers for > my card whether I told it to use 3D acceleration or not. I just want to set > up X manually and may just copy over my XF86Config from my RedHat box. > Another thing I tried to do in the control panel was tell it to start me in > text mode. It managed to not start KDM but still started XDM. Damn it! Oh > well. I'll be playing with it when time allows.
I have a laptop with the Nvidia GeForce Go chipset running SuSE. I downloaded the drivers from Nvidia, RTFM, and installed them and configured as indicated in the documentation (yes it involved editing XF86Config by hand). When you tell it to use 3D, it takes quite a while to set up, but works fine. Oh, and the drivers you can get at SuSE's ftp site don't work very well-- I tried them first. I got the laptop because I had 7 $225 coupons from Toshiba. Personally, when I get a new card for my workstation, it's going to be a Radeon with 64MB DDR RAM. Why? Because the drivers are open-source, and I'm willing to compromise performance for Freedom (as in speech). But then, I'm not really a gamer, and if I was doing CAD or somesuch, I'd use a Matrox card. Cheers, Dennis
