After all the recent chat about graphics cards I decided to try enabling 3D on my GeForce 2 MX, which had been running quite happily in 2D. I downloaded the 2 rpms from NVidia's site, and installed them. then I ran 3Ddiag. Gears before was doing about 68 fps, and afterwards was doing about 75 fps. Not really worth it, unless I have missed something. I have just noticed Ben's recent post advocating using the tars, and not running switch2nvidia_glx. I haven't done the latter (unless 3Ddiag did) - is there anything obvious I have missed? Thanks Kevin
You also need to alter the /etc/X11/XF86Config file in it you need to find the line: Driver "nv" and replace it with Driver "nvidia" and also find the line Section "Module" and add an entry for Load "glx" in that section (there will be other Load's next to it, like Load "type1" and Load "speedo") Then you need to restart X, and it should show an Nvidia logo as it restarts. Ewan On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 15:40, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
After all the recent chat about graphics cards I decided to try enabling 3D on my GeForce 2 MX, which had been running quite happily in 2D.
I downloaded the 2 rpms from NVidia's site, and installed them. then I ran 3Ddiag. Gears before was doing about 68 fps, and afterwards was doing about 75 fps. Not really worth it, unless I have missed something.
I have just noticed Ben's recent post advocating using the tars, and not running switch2nvidia_glx. I haven't done the latter (unless 3Ddiag did) - is there anything obvious I have missed?
Thanks
Kevin
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On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 15:41, Ewan Leith wrote:
You also need to alter the /etc/X11/XF86Config file
in it you need to find the line:
Driver "nv"
and replace it with
Driver "nvidia"
and also find
the line
Section "Module"
and add an entry for
Load "glx"
in that section (there will be other Load's next to it, like Load "type1" and Load "speedo")
Then you need to restart X, and it should show an Nvidia logo as it restarts.
Ewan
And if you don't want to see the logo put this line in Section "Device": Option "NoLogo" "on" Cheers, Marcel
kevin@dotmon.com wrote:
After all the recent chat about graphics cards I decided to try enabling 3D on my GeForce 2 MX, which had been running quite happily in 2D.
I downloaded the 2 rpms from NVidia's site, and installed them. then I ran 3Ddiag. Gears before was doing about 68 fps, and afterwards was doing about 75 fps. Not really worth it, unless I have missed something.
I have just noticed Ben's recent post advocating using the tars, and not running switch2nvidia_glx. I haven't done the latter (unless 3Ddiag did) - is there anything obvious I have missed?
Thanks
Kevin
Of course the easy way would be to run sax2, click enable 3D, save, and exit. Worked for me. John
On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 17:27, John Scott wrote:
kevin@dotmon.com wrote:
After all the recent chat about graphics cards I decided to try enabling 3D on my GeForce 2 MX, which had been running quite happily in 2D.
I downloaded the 2 rpms from NVidia's site, and installed them. then I ran 3Ddiag. Gears before was doing about 68 fps, and afterwards was doing about 75 fps. Not really worth it, unless I have missed something.
I have just noticed Ben's recent post advocating using the tars, and not running switch2nvidia_glx. I haven't done the latter (unless 3Ddiag did) - is there anything obvious I have missed?
Thanks
Kevin
Of course the easy way would be to run sax2, click enable 3D, save, and exit. Worked for me.
John
i just followed Ben's tips and it worked dandy for me. i had tried rpms last week and han issues --
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