There are those who would have you believe that S.J. Black wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:23:36 -0700 > From: "S.J. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586) > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: of Xservers and XSetup, of sabotage and kinks... > > Hi All - > > Just downloaded 2.2 - verrry sweet ftp install! I've run into a small > problem with getting/finding/installing the XServer, though, and was > wondering if someone could help with this. > > I did grab the XFree 4.0 stuff, as XF86Setup was quite insistent that I > did not have the "required server" for my Diamond Viper 770. Looked at > the documentation for NVidia, and came out of the 2 hour doc-search no > wiser than before. Again, was surprised to find setup telling me the > required server didn't exist. > > Any suggestions? >
The Diamond Viper 770 is based on the NVidia TNT2 chip. It's supported by the SVGA server in X 3.3.6. For 4.0.1, you can use the "nv" driver, or you can go to NVidia's website (http://www.nvidia.com) to download their accelerated server.
