On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David Freeman wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David Freeman wrote:
- How well is the geforce 2 MX supported on Linux?
I have a GeForce 2 GTS and all Nvidia cards later than the Riva128 are supported with hardware acceleration, BUT the drivers to do this are binary only (they work fine though) Nvidia will not open source them. There is an implementation built into XFree86 that supports them but no hardware acceleration == no Quake III.
When you say supported do you mean under X or as a kernel module of some sort? Also what about FB support?
The Nvidia chipset is supported under X (4 BTW not 3.3) for unaccelerated things, but you need a kernel module to get 3d acceleration working (and change 1 line in the XF86Config) and it really is a quick card for 3d though. AFAIK there is no fb support but there would be no real point using it if it does because the 3d would not work and then there would be no Quake which is the most important issue here.
Well I'm thinking Xine ATM, I am also thinkning of the dark side and upgrading from Peanut to debian, but not sure how great an idea this would really be.
Do it, or I will say Ni repeatedly at you at the next meet.
Athlon 1.2Ghz 512Mb 2100DDR memory, motherboard and DVD drive along with a IBM UDMA100 60Gb hard disk and a Iiyama Vision master Pro 451 19" monitor,
Go on, you know you want it.
Well yeah I know that already, the problem is affording it! unless the fairy Tuxmother comes and grants some wishes, my cashflow atm resembles that of a dotcom company.
Adam