On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Gavin McCord wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:54:05PM +0000, Paul Millar wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Aedan McGhie/Scotland wrote: > > > Are there any of Priceless's current offerings I should dodge or will > > > any old AGP card be fine. > > [snip - anti nVidia rant] > > I run Slackware 8.0 on my games box, self-compiled kernel 2.4.7 and > on a Geforce 2 MX 200. For the last 2 weeks have been playing Wolfenstein > quite happily. I did need to download the nvidia drivers and edit a couple > of lines in my XF86Config but my only problem is the fact that the rest > of my system isn't really fast enough (sound quality isn't that great, > CPU usage is at 100% when playing the game as it's only a K6-2 500).
Based on everyone's "it worked for me", I had another shot with the latest drivers ... and they worked (+/- a little bit). My wee bestie is only a K6-2 450 with an original AWE32 (it only just fits in the box), so the CPU tends to be maxed out too; but at least I've got tuxracer back again :^) > So that only leaves the political argument - do you use closed-source > drivers? Yep, its a political decision. But I'd say a more important political decision is: do you buy hardware where the manufacturer doesn't provide enough information for someone to write a drivers? Cheers, Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Millar yo-yo, n. : Particle Physics Theory Group Something that is occasionally Department of Physics and Astronomy up but normally down. University of Glasgow, (see also Computer) Glasgow G12 8QQ, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scotland +44 (0)141 330 4717 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
