-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 September 2003 20:13, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Monday 01 Sep 2003 11:04 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > > On Monday 01 September 2003 16:49, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:02:35 +0100 > > > > > > Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > OK I downloaded cube, and I've got about 0.3fps (it says 9, but > > > > it's lying.) I must admit that I haven't looked around too much, > > > > I don't really know where to look, but as a first try how's this > > > > for a video card, and a X setup? > > > > > > > > Section "Device" > > > > Identifier "Card0" > > > > VendorName "NVidia" > > > > BoardName "GeForce2 Ti" > > > > Driver "nv" > > > > > > You are using the default nv driver supplied by XFree86. > > > This does not supply 3d hardware acceleration for the nvidia cards. > > > > > > The only way you will be able to achieve 3d accel is by using the > > > proprietary NVIDIA driver. > > > The latest driver is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run > > > and is available from > > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4496 > > yep. That's done it, up to 75fps now. Many thanks both of you. Now if > only I can avoid getting fragged for a couple of minutes... > > > I'm running 9.1 with the default driver, so I also need to do that. > > > > #lspcidrake > > Card:NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic): nVidia Corporation|NV11 Geforce2 > > MX/MX 400 > > > > > > The instructions say the latest driver will work with XFree version > > 4.0.1 or greater. > > How can I know which verson I have ? > > Is the install as simple as rpm -Uvh driver ? Does it have any > > dependencies ? I fear that something will go wrong and I won't be > > able to run X... > > I ran through it no problem. You do need to do it with X stopped: > ctrl-Alt-F2, login as root and "telinit 3". Run the script and then > read the README and edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to suit the new > driver; (one line to change, one line to comment out.) Before you can > get back to the GUI. But if that all makes sense then it's dead easy.
Ok, I downloaded it, but it seems I have to study more about telinit3 and telinit 5. How can I change them ? Thank you, guys ! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/U9cU4eVBtrgQWDsRAoEOAKCAbFzj3lk4+Kh40Ou9jLL0hZWpzgCeIUVY HzMwL2cfnl5Z47RioF0Qmm8= =HhxB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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