On Tuesday 23 May 2006 07:33, James Wright wrote:
Windows XP and Server 2003 have not problems with this card, so I assume the card is fine.
Hi James, The fact that your card still works under a M$ OS is interesting, but not particularly relevant. Linux is constantly progressing... unlike dinosaurs. ;-) Did you see this thread excerpt?:
Those cards are 6+ generations** (over 5 years**) old. ... Exactly! ... since one can buy a brand new (and _much_ faster than TNT2) nVIDIA card (geforce mx4000) which _is_ supported by nVIDIA's accelerated drivers, on AGP for less
[re TNT2] than UKP20 (or PCI for less than 30), then why not just do that to use xgl? Then sell the TNT2 on eBay (to a museum :-)
I hadn't realized the card was that old. Developers don't get much 'bang for the buck' maintaining drivers for obsolete hardware. In this case, X has progressed. So have graphics hardware capabilities (by leaps and bounds) and the graphics/3D applications that take advantage of them. It is looking to me like the driver for that card was maintained up to some 'final' version of X then dropped in favor of development supporting the newer generation cards, which incidentally are many times faster and relatively inexpensive. If you desperately need to use *that* specific card, then you'll need to 'fix' the driver yourself or downgrade to an earlier X that is supported by the driver and/or even downgrade to a compatible installation of Linux. Sorry, but that's how I'm beginning to interpret your situation. regards, Carl