On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:45:52 RaEl wrote: > NVIDIA has their own driver. Very easy to insstall. Just substitute > XF86Config-4 for XF86Config in the instructions and all should work fine. I'm > playing Quake3 and Unreal Tournament with no problems at all. > As far getting a V5500 I ask why? A Geforce2 MX costs about a 100-120 bucks > for a 32 meg card that pounds the voodoo into the dust in both windows and > Linux. I used to be a Voodoo owner V1/V2 but Nvidia gets my cash because > there cards are the best right now. > > > > >> Instead of using nvidia's card, try 3dfx voodoo 5500 card, it works great > on > >> my linux box running mandrake 7.1. Perhaps nVidia is not the best "open-source-friendly" company (although they are doing a great job with their drivers and the community, pitty that 'little' part they have to ship in binary...), but in hardware they are the best in normal budget market (don't think about Oxygens or TDZs of $1500). > >> Beware this 3D acceleration support is experimental and is based upon > >> previous > >> version of nvidia drivers for RIVA128 and bug fixed by Utah GLX team. this > >> version does not include any AGP acceleration, and really works almost > >> correctly > >> on RIVA128 card, but newer card may have problems with some games. Drivers from nVidia work fine. And installing is straightforward in Mandrake (it comes with XF401, Mesa split in Mesa- and Mesa-common). Over a sane install of Mandrake 7.2, you can get nVidia's drivers up on 5 minutes (15 if you have to read the docs....) In my dept. we use Performer, and its a pleasure to see a GeForce2 DDR running at 100 fps on performer.town, at 1280x1024x16, and at 150 fps on a 2GTS (my home TNT2 only gets 30 fps at 32 bits...jealous...). -- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta #> cd /pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #> more beer
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