I have had pretty good luck so far with the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel ebuilds on x86 systems (still running the 2.4 kernel). The two cards I have configured so far are the GeForce 2 Go in my Inspiron 2650 and the GeForce FX 5200 in my tower.
As far as other chips, the ATIs have excellent support (couple of my buddies each have some flavor of the Radeons and they always rave about 'em), but I don't know about the Intels.
Would read through the Desktop Configuration Guide, that's in the docs section of the gentoo web site. It doesn't have a ton of details on the nvidia stuff, but it will get you started and hopefully point you in the directions you need to go to tweak it to maximum potential.
To get started, I just ran XFree86 -configure and it wrote a decent config file for both. Most of the available settings that it detects for the card are commented out, so you will have to find out what you want to do and what works for your card and play around with it to it's set the way you want it.
Haven't compiled any games yet (plan on putting q3 on my tower, also), but the GL and 3D Xscreensavers run very smooth with no flickers on both systems.
If I run into any and solve any problems or if I run across some good stuff that would be good for the community, I will post it to this list.
If you want a copy of my XF86Config file, just holler and I will send it.
Good luck, but most of all, enjoy!
- michael
On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 01:17 PM, Steven Gill wrote:
Will a Laptop with a GeForce4 440MX GO graphics chipset work with the nvidia accelerated drivers (to provide 3D for games)?
I want to be able to run a few 3D games (quake3, nwn). I know that the
performance even with the accelerated drivers won't be all that great but
it'll be better that no 3D acceleration at all!
If not what laptop chipsets provide 3D capabilities under Gentoo Linux?(ie. ATI, Intel Extreme Graphics)
Thanx in advance,
Steven.
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