I (finally) got the dang ATI Rage Fury to work with Windoze! Pitiful.
Apparently ATI doesn't know that their software drivers DON'T support
Windoze 95 or 95a. You must be running 95b or 98. They advertise it
will work but in PCI mode for 95 and 95a. Ok I thought. That's fine by
me. We'll, the reason (and this makes no sense at all) is that they need
USB support in the OS to make it work in with AGP mode when switching to
SVGA. Found something in their docs that briefly mention this.
Anyway, I appreciate the comments and help. I'll try this card for
awhile and see how it works. I think I'll probably just give this
system to my kids and build another with the GEforce when it comes out
with 3D drivers for Linux. That will motivate me.
Thx again
Frank
Samuel Flory wrote:
>
> The GE force 256 has a lot of potential, but currently there is no
> support for 3D on the card under linux. I'd recommend the Voodoo 3 or
> the G400. I can get 50 FPS in Quake3 @640x480 /w default settings using
> XFree86 3.3.6 and utah-glx on my G400. (This is beats the windows
> drivers on the same machine, but past 1024@768 the windows drivers beat
> glx.) It requires a little tweaking, a new kernel to support agp, and
> you need to run as root to get direct rendering. If anyone's interested
> I can provide a kernel rpm, glx rpm, and glx.conf file that should work
> for G400's and G200s.
>
> The VIII has a slightly easier setup, however and gets better 3D
> performance. The VIII will also have useable 3D support in 4.0 sooner.
> The G400 is a much more well rounded card, and has much better 2D
> support in both 3.3.6 and 4.0. Keep in mind my VIII knowledge is mostly
> 2nd hand, and based on setting up my old VII.
>
> It really depends on wether you are willing to wait for NVIDA's
> driver. I'd hazard a guess it will beat the VIII, and G400 under
> linux. I'd say more, but then I'd have to kill both of us.
>
> Another place to watch in the future is ATI. They're not at the high
> end, but I know a number of people that have gotten utah-glx working on
> an ATI card.(including laptops) ATI's getting fairly aggressive about
> linux support.
>
> Frank Carreiro wrote:
> >
> > Thx... VERY impressive numbers. 120 fps?? Geez
> >
> 120 fps is not very impressive for the gears demo, but it's impresive
> that this without hardware acceleration.
>
> > The card is like another $60 more but I think it's worth it. I have
> > some serious gaming needs :D
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > Adam Sleight wrote:
> > >
> > > http://www.btinternet.com/~gilbertt/
> > >
> > > check out diary entry for March 19th your answer is there....wow!
> > >
> > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:39:28 +0000
> > > Frank Carreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know if the GEforce 256 video card work under linux? I'm
> > > > considering a purchase.
> > > >
> > > > I have several voodoo3's but I'm looking for an alternative just in case
> > > > they go south...
> > > >
> > > > thx
> > > >
> > > > Frank
> > > >
> > > > www.xmission.com/~dmacleod
> >
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