Hi SuSE Users: I have just installed 7.1 and I am sorry to say the my Diamond Viper 770D nVIDIA card works just awful. I need to find a replacement card that is definitely Linux compatible. Any suggestions? At least in SuSE 7.0 it gave something akin to 3D but nVIDIA does a lousy job on providing drivers. I have had this thing for a year. It was a "gift" from Dell and the geniuses at Red Hat, who said it was a Linux compatible card. This computer was supposed to be Linux compatible. Disgusted with nVIDIA Corp. Jonathan
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:31:47AM -0600, Jonathan Drwes wrote:
I have just installed 7.1 and I am sorry to say the my Diamond Viper 770D nVIDIA card works just awful. I need to find a replacement card that is definitely Linux compatible. Any suggestions? At least in SuSE 7.0 it gave something akin to 3D but nVIDIA does a lousy job on providing drivers. I have had this thing for a year. It was a "gift" from Dell and the geniuses at Red Hat, who said it was a Linux compatible card. This computer was supposed to be Linux compatible.
That card should be compatable. What problems are you having? Are you using the SuSE provided drivers, or did you download the drivers from Nvidia's Web Site? - V -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!"
Jonathan Drwes wrote:
Hi SuSE Users:
I have just installed 7.1 and I am sorry to say the my Diamond Viper 770D nVIDIA card works just awful. I need to find a replacement card that is definitely Linux compatible. Any suggestions? At least in SuSE 7.0 it gave something akin to 3D but nVIDIA does a lousy job on providing drivers. I have had this thing for a year. It was a "gift" from Dell and the geniuses at Red Hat, who said it was a Linux compatible card. This computer was supposed to be Linux compatible.
I've got a Viper V770 also and am planning to spend some time tonight trying to get it working. Ben here also has one and it's working great for him, so I know it can be done. I'll try to report back if I get it working. A few threads up, someone posted a URL pointing to the SuSE portal page that had some info on getting nVIDIA stuff working on 7.0 and 7.1. You could also check portal.suse.com and check the "Hardware" section to get the same info. Good luck and don't give up on nVIDIA yet! ;^) Ken -- "We can build a better product than Linux..." -- Microsoft VP Jim Allchin
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Jonathan Drwes wrote:
I have just installed 7.1 and I am sorry to say the my Diamond Viper 770D nVIDIA card works just awful. I need to find a replacement card that is definitely Linux compatible. Any suggestions?
I used to recommend nVidia for a while. Now I am back to either Matrox (G450) or ATI (Radeon). At least they provide XFree86 drivers in source. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 30 years.
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
I used to recommend nVidia for a while. Now I am back to either Matrox (G450) or ATI (Radeon). At least they provide XFree86 drivers in source.
Lenz, since you mentioned Radeon's, can you confirm if the XFree in SuSE 7.1 supports 3D on the Radeon "out of the box"? Thanks, Ken -- "We can build a better product than Linux..." -- Microsoft VP Jim Allchin
-----Original Message----- From: kenh@ast-inc.com [mailto:kenh@ast-inc.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 12:16 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Replacement for nVIDIA
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
I used to recommend nVidia for a while. Now I am back to either Matrox (G450) or ATI (Radeon). At least they provide XFree86 drivers in source.
Lenz, since you mentioned Radeon's, can you confirm if the XFree in SuSE 7.1 supports 3D on the Radeon "out of the box"?
I'm not Lenz, but I can answer your question. The only distro that "out of the box" supports 3d accel (experimental) with the Radeon is the Mandrake 8.0 beta using the 2.42 kernel and XFree4.0.2 In SuSE 7.1 you get 3d but not with accel. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ken Hughes wrote:
Lenz, since you mentioned Radeon's, can you confirm if the XFree in SuSE 7.1 supports 3D on the Radeon "out of the box"?
I honestly don't know, but I will check... LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany To be a Californian means to have faults others don't.
On Fri, Mar 02, Ken Hughes wrote:
Lenz, since you mentioned Radeon's, can you confirm if the XFree in SuSE 7.1 supports 3D on the Radeon "out of the box"?
No, Radeon with 3D support will probably come in XFree86 4.1.0. My bad: I was assuming, the 3D support is already in. :( LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany Pretend to spank me - I'm a pseudo-masochist.
Jonathan, I will send you my X config file..because *I* know this card works really, really well under 7.1 mainly because I play Q3A, Soldier of Fortune..etc..etc. and all the GL screensavers in KDE2 work perfectly. Something else is wrong because this card kicks ass with the nVidia drivers that are in 7.1 If you want the config file let me know and if more then 1 person wants it I will post it to the list. Regards, * Jonathan Drwes (j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net) [010302 00:23]: =>Hi SuSE Users: => => I have just installed 7.1 and I am sorry to say the my Diamond Viper 770D =>nVIDIA card works just awful. I need to find a replacement card that is =>definitely Linux compatible. Any suggestions? => At least in SuSE 7.0 it gave something akin to 3D but nVIDIA does a lousy =>job on providing drivers. I have had this thing for a year. It was a "gift" =>from Dell and the geniuses at Red Hat, who said it was a Linux compatible =>card. This computer was supposed to be Linux compatible. => => => Disgusted with nVIDIA Corp. => => Jonathan => =>-- =>To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com =>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com =>Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq => -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
On Friday 02 March 2001 11:48, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Jonathan,
I will send you my X config file..because *I* know this card works really, really well under 7.1 mainly because I play Q3A, Soldier of Fortune..etc..etc. and all the GL screensavers in KDE2 work perfectly. Something else is wrong because this card kicks ass with the nVidia drivers that are in 7.1
If you want the config file let me know and if more then 1 person wants it I will post it to the list.
Regards, * Jonathan Drwes (j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net) [010302 00:23]:
Yes, please post it to the list! I am going to attempt an install on my wife's Compaq w/nVidia TNT2 card. She has opened the door to Linux slightly, so I am rushing in and don't need big probs with graphics. Thanks!! Tom
Ben wrote:
I will send you my X config file..because *I* know this card works really, really well under 7.1 mainly because I play Q3A, Soldier of Fortune..etc..etc. and all the GL screensavers in KDE2 work perfectly. Something else is wrong because this card kicks ass with the nVidia drivers that are in 7.1
If you want the config file let me know and if more then 1 person wants it I will post it to the list.
I have an ELSA Synergy II card, which I believe uses the same chipset i.e. RivaTNT2. which I would like to get working as currently I don't think I'm getting the best out of it. So if you could post the config file that would be a big help. Many thanks, Mark
Well, because I already posted it to the list. I don't want to screw up anyones bandwidth..so you can get the file from here...and anyone else is free to grab it. http://www.whack.org/~ben/stuff It's the only file in that directory. Regards, * Mark Daglish (Mark.Daglish@bristol.ac.uk) [010305 02:52]: =>> =>I have an ELSA Synergy II card, which I believe uses the same chipset =>i.e. RivaTNT2. which I would like to get working as currently I don't =>think I'm getting the best out of it. So if you could post the config file =>that would be a big help. => -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
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