On Wednesday 12 December 2001 20:48, you wrote: AFAIK the opensouce drivers that come with X for the nvidia cards DON'T do 3D. They only have 2D support. If you want 3D support go to www.nvidia.com and download their closed drivers (which work great here btw) and install those. It's fairly easy
Regards > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:12:16AM -0700, Charles Vavra wrote: > > Hi, I have an IWILL 266 board with an 1.33 htz chip installed and have > > installed SuSe 7.3 on the drive. SuSe is the only running system and I'm > > trying to configure my graphics card, its a Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 400. I > > upgraded to 4.1.0 and still can not seen to get the 3D graphics to work. > > It comes to my attention that the monitor I'm using is from my Macintosh > > setup before I switched over to Linux. Its a Sony 300 sf and the > > different resolutions listed in the operating booklet that came with it > > show both resolutions for VESA and VGA. Will this monitor work ? > > monitor has nothing to do with graphics performance or capability; only > with display capabilities. X only cares about where to start and end the > monitor signals, and how fast to send them; drawing the actual image in the > graphics card's framebuffer is another matter entirely. > > so the answer is yes, your monitor will work. (to some extent or another). > > Carl Soderstrom _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
