[H-GEN] While we're at it

Robert Stanford rob at rotapile.com
Wed Oct 23 08:36:17 EDT 2002


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On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 22:18, Sandra Milne wrote:
> 
> TNT2 M64 32 meg. Hopefully going geforce 2 mx440 soon since they're so 
> cheap. I had one but the fiance's computer lags a bit behind mine so i gave 
> it to him and took his TNT2 for my duron 1.2gig.

NVidia chipset eh, you lucky thing, they have excellent linux support,
go hunt down nvidia.com.

Theres 2 thingsto download

1. NVidia-glx rpm or tarball depending on whatever floats your boat. It
will give you a nvidia driver for X4

i.e.
in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
        Load  "glx"             
	Load  "extmod"
	...whatever else you have/want
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Video Card"
        Driver "nvidia"
	...whatever else you have/want
EndSection

Typicaly just replace the nv bit in the Device section with nvidia

2. A kernel module for the card, you may need the source for your
running kernel, they may have one prebuilt for a stock kernel. Insert
the module before running X


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