On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:24:51PM +0000, Ken Plumley wrote:
:
: Are their any 32 MB AGP video cards that work with red hat?
: I plan on upgrading my machine if one will run on it.
I'm extremely happy with my Creative Annihilator 2. It's a GeForce2 GTS,
with 32 MB onboard. Very nice, very fast too.. Be warned though.. To
get it to work, I had to use the XFree 4.0.1 packages from Rawhide.. This
went something like:
1) Get the SRPMS from Rawhide for XFree86-4.0.1, xinitrc, initscripts,
and modutils (I think that covered all the dependencies I had).
2) rpm --rebuild and install the initscripts, modutils
3) rpm --rebuild XFree86 and xinitrc
4) install the XFree86 packages and xinitrc
5) cd /etc/X11 ; ln -sf ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X (they forgot to do it
in the postinst script for XFree86).
6) For my card, I had to go the the NVidia website and get the 0.9-5
kernel module, plus GLX drivers. Make sure you pay particular attention
to NVidia's docs, because there are a couple of files you'll need to
pull *out* of their usual locations, so the NVidia driver-provided files
can take their place (such as libGL, etc).
7) Get an XF86Config file together - xf86cfg doesn't work for this card.
I had an existing one that I modified. xf86config generates one that
*almost* works. I put mine up on my website for anyone who's got
something close to my config (GF2, Sony E200 tube, 1600x1200x24bpp):
http://www.jasons.org/XF86Config
BE WARNED: You can blow up your monitor if you don't go in and adjust
the available refresh rates in this file. If you don't, you might
try to over-drive your monitor, resulting in smoke rising from it, and
you getting extremely frustrated. You may also need to adjust the Mouse
section, as well as the video driver. But the good news is that with
XFree 4.0.1, modelines are no longer used, so you don't have to worry
about the old-style dot-clocks. Huzzah!
--
Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
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