I've been though this with a Vanta. The Nvidia source is for 3.3.5 I believe, otherwise you have the binaries (with stringent license). The binary driver is unstable & liable to crash & burn with slight provocation eg. ctrl-alt-Fx to a text console, or simply dying on startup.
================================================== Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group www.spirelug.org.uk ================================================== On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to configure X on a PII 300 Mhz dual proc with a Creative > TNT2 Vanta PCI card and running Woody. > > X works in 1280x1024, but both xfree 3.3.6 xserver-svga and xfree 4.0.1 > xserver-xfree86 > have problem with stable picture in 1600x1200. The card should be able > to do this with 85Hz vertical > according to the documentation. In fact it is only 220Mhz pixelrate of > the possible pixelrate of 350MHz. > Even my old Millenium II can take the Dell 21" D1626HT to 1600x1200 but > with less colors. > The problem is for instance that if I click on the desktop the menu > (fvwm menu) comes up with an offset to the right > and is unstable and has stripes. The system however thinks it is located > close to the mouse pointer so there is some > guessing to choose the correct line etc. Bigger windows case even more > trouble. > > Anyone got some input or experience of such a combination? What is the > quality of the xfree86 drivers for this card? > Should one try to compile the drivers from Nvidia's ftp site? > > Anders > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
