I can use MS Flight Simulator OK on my windows partition (with a Miscrosoft 
Sidewinder joy stick), although scenery slow to load.

Can I get T&L setup from somewhere, or I am looking at a new video card?

Scott

On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:48 pm, Christian Mayer wrote:
> 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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