Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1683 mails)

[dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx (Mark Hounschell)]

Message-ID: <3A1CE4E3.7ECE4509@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 04:35:31 -0500
From: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX graphics card



Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 22, Des Aubery wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone assist me to set this card up on a new machine, I have just
> > bought in?
> >
> > I guess that this card is so new that neither Sax, nor Sax2 manage to
> > recognise it...
> 
> Yes, this card is newer than SaX2's hardware detection library. However, you
> can trick it to configure it anyway. Start it with the following parameter:
> 
> sax2 -m 0=nvidia
> 
> This will force it to use the nvidia driver on the first head. In addition
> you should add the following option to /etc/modules.conf:
> 
> options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
> 
> And you should update nv_glx.rpm and nvdriver.rpm from ftp.suse.com.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
>         LenZ
> --
What exactly are nv_glx.rpm and nvdriver.rpm? Are these SuSE beautified
NVIDIA kernel and GLX drivers from NVIDIA for X4.0.1/SuSE? Do these
provide the same 3d hardware accelleration as the stuff on NVIDIA's
web site??


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Mark Hounschell
dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx