try http://www.suse.com They usually have the latest X windows drivers.
Generally, the newer cards don't do accelerated video well. Read the
readme on the newer drivers on suse and play with your config file.
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, R_Yeo wrote:
> Hi,
> I've posted to the newbie list but haven't got an answer, so hopefully
> someone can help here.
>
>
> I have one of those NeoMagic graphics cards with 2.5Mb RAM running on a
> notebook(KDE1.1.1 & Mandrake6.0). I have tried to use the XFCom servers
> available from Redhat's site. Only thing it has done for me is disable
> my backspace and delete keys. Have tried stty erase to no avail. The
> only solution was to use ^H, so I went back to the XFree SVGA as I could
> not see any difference.
>
> Then I tried using the demo version of Accelerated X. Again, no
> difference, so I got out of my KDE session and tried to startx again.
> THe X server refuses to start with a message like "Authentication
> Failed". The only solution was to uninstall Accel X.
>
> My two questions are:
>
> What improvements do I expect to see over a generic (SVGA) server?
> Has anobody got any ideas on the problem I encountered with the Accel X
> ? If there is a real performance boost(presuming I can get it working)
> , I would like to get the Accel X package.
>
