Thanks to all who responded! Last night (or was it early this morning.......) I finally got it working. 24bpp on 1024 x 768. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how I did it! I first reinstalled Xfree86-4.01. I then reinstalled the NVIDIA drivers, building from the tarballs this time, rather than the source RPMs as I did before. But when I then tried to run Xfree86 -configure, (which creates a "bare bones" config file), it would not work. It kept telling me there was a problem loading a module. But it did not tell me which module! I still had a copy of a bare bones config file (from a former successful attempt with Xfree86 -configure) so I tried to test X using this file as recommended in the 4.01 instructions. Somehow this put me into the non-gui Xfree86 setup. I thought "what the hell..." and completed the setup. I was able to start X and from within KDE I ran sax2. This time, using 24bpp it worked! Now it's time to try and clean up the mess I've made (lots of copies of XF86Config lying around !). Anyway, as recommended in the NVIDIA article on Tom's Hardware Page, I ran ssystem -bench. In the lower right corner of the ssystem window it showed 44.7 FPS which I assume is the frame rate (I've never looked at this stuff before). Is this good? (for a 16M TNT running at 24bpp on 1024 x 768) Thanks again! (P.S. could someone who is running 4.0 or 4.01 on a TNT or TNT2 send me a copy of their XF86Config for comparison purposes?) Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 Research Triangle Park, NC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Pete Atkinson [mailto:pete@poa.uklinux.net] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 6:11 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] XFree86-4.01, NVIDIA drivers, sax2 and I can only get 24bpp from a 32M TNT2 card, mind you I am more than happy with 16 anyway..... Pete On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, you wrote:

"Cleary, Mike" wrote:

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I think I'm close, but am still having some problems here. [SuSE 6.4; Graphic Blaster Riva TNT (16 MB) video card]

I was chasing info on this very thing for a student today! According to the XFree page on SuSE, the current Nvidia drivers only support 16bpp colour.

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