Message-ID: <3A1CE4E3.7ECE4509@cfl.rr.com> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 04:35:31 -0500 From: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com> 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?? -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com