Quoting Theodore Knab on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:02:30PM -0400: > Bendard, > > I don't think that the 2.2.16 kernel has dri support. > > To use the full potential of the Gforce you will need to compile the 2.4.x > kernel with DRI support. > > After compiling the new kernel for DRI support, you will also want to pull > down the latest GForce drivers from Nvidia's site. > > Someone will surely correct me if I am wrong here. > > -Ted > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:56:01AM +0200, Bernard Rei?berg wrote: > > > > BeRnArD29ReIsSbErG04IlMeNaU1980 > > > > Hi folks! :-) > > > > A friend has a Linux-system with kernel 2.2.16 installed. He has an > > Hercules 3D Prophet 2 MX with a GEFORCE 2 MX chip and he tried many times > > to get a nice x-screen with a better resolution than 800x600 and more than > > 16 colors, but we both were not able to find the right driver for this > > video card. He has now SuSE 7.0 and wants to buy an update to 7.2, because > > there is the support for this card shipped with. But I want to take him to > > the community of Debian users, because I think, that Debian is much better > > than SuSE. So I need your help, please. Can somebody of you tell me how to > > get this damned video card running? > > > > Thank you very much for your help!!! :-) > > I am using a GeForce 2mx card with a 2.4.7 kernel, with pretty good results. The system I am using it on is a Athlon Thunderbird 1g with 512mb of memory. There are some options that the nvidia readme documents for the best results. I am very happy with the results on both a GeForce and Diamond Viper 770d. I would not run the card under a 2.2.x kernel because when I did I suffered on this system with a lot of bus errors and X dumping core on me. Soon as I moved to the 2.4 kernel it all went away. The later nvidia drivers help a lot too.
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