Re: [Flightgear-users] NVIDIA driver for linux

2003-02-05 Thread brett holcomb
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:48:53 -0600 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Keech writes: support for 3D capabilities of NVIDIA cards is not open source. you will need binary-only kernel modules (from nvidia) to make this work. many report good success with these drivers, however

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2003-02-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:26:24 -0500, brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:48:53 -0600 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Keech writes: support for 3D capabilities of NVIDIA cards is not open source. you will need

Re: [Flightgear-users] NVIDIA driver for linux

2003-02-05 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:26 am, brett holcomb wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:48:53 -0600 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Keech writes: support for 3D capabilities of NVIDIA cards is not open source. you will need binary-only kernel modules (from nvidia) to make

Re: [Flightgear-users] NVIDIA driver for linux

2003-02-05 Thread Sid Boyce
I am still mystified about the NVidia/AMD problem if it is such. I have read and done everything mentioned on the SuSE site. On SuSE 8.1 with the SuSE kernels, including the recent SuSE internal 2.4.21, there are no problems. On the 2.4.20 kernel from ftp.kernel.org, I get everything up

Re: [Flightgear-users] NVIDIA driver for linux

2003-02-05 Thread Jon Stockill
On 5 Feb 2003, Sid Boyce wrote: I am still mystified about the NVidia/AMD problem if it is such. I have read and done everything mentioned on the SuSE site. On SuSE 8.1 with the SuSE kernels, including the recent SuSE internal 2.4.21, there are no problems. On the 2.4.20 kernel from

Re: Re: [Flightgear-users] NVIDIA driver for linux

2003-02-05 Thread Tony Peden
Sid, I think if you go back to earlier kernels, 2.4.10ish would certainly do it, you'd have a better chance of experiencing the problem. Jon, the AMD problem was a known bug that AMD MS put out fixes for. ---Original Message--- From: Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02/05/03 11:21

Re: [Flightgear-users] NVIDIA driver for linux

2003-02-05 Thread brett holcomb
On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:43:54 -0500 John Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:26 am, brett holcomb wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:48:53 -0600 First, who cares if it's binary. Yes, RS and his group will squawk and yes, I like and use Opensource wherever I can but in

Re: Re: [Flightgear-users] NVIDIA driver for linux

2003-02-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Tony Peden writes: Sid, I think if you go back to earlier kernels, 2.4.10ish would certainly do it, you'd have a better chance of experiencing the problem. Jon, the AMD problem was a known bug that AMD MS put out fixes for. And the problem on the Linux side was that the wording of the