Scott Taylor wrote:
>
> Sorry...here it is:
>
> Box - Athlon AMD 650, RAM 384MB, HDD 30GB
> Video Card - nVidia Riva TnT2 32 MB
That card has no T&L setup (only GeForce cards do have it). So it's
guaranteed that you'll have "bad" performance.
> Distro - Linux Red Hat 7.3
>
> I have never downloaded any video card specific software. I guess I need to by
> the sounds of it. Is this on nVidia's web site?
No specific software? Hm, I don't know if Red Hat includes the nVidia
drivers (SuSE doesn't, but offers you to download them as there are
copyright problems otherwise). But if you don't have drivers you aren't
even using the 3D acceleration of that card and thus you'll get *very*
bad performance (actually FGFS is virtaully unusable w/o 3D
acceleration)
> Also I recently upgraded memory to 384MB and using Control Panel I just
> noticed that the graphs are saying that there is 31MB free physical memory
> and 257MB free virtual, is there something wrong here? (this is while not
> running flightgear)
Linux uses all the RAM that's unused for disk cachnig. But that's
dynamical, so you don't need to worry about that. Most users get
confused by that.
Have a look at my router:
cm@p100:~> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 37904 35672 2232 0 2144 9224
-/+ buffers/cache: 24304 13600
Swap: 130748 19384 111364
The correct answer of how much RAM ist left would be "13600" and not, as
most would think, "2232".
CU,
Christian
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