Re: RE:GeForce4 MX

2003-01-23 Thread Chris Burns
I chose to get the cheapest most recent card i could find, because I plan to upgrade to a kickass card this summer, but i'm buying a new system now and didnt' want to have something as old as a GeForceDDR in a new system. I got the GF4MX for $45, it's a 440 with 64MB - Original Message -

GeForce4 MX

2003-01-22 Thread Chris Burns
Hey everyone, I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeForce3, at least taht's what the string listing the supported cards sa

OpenGL

2003-01-02 Thread Chris Burns
Hey everyone, I'm having trouble getting a simple OpenGL window running here wiht the GLX lib. it's a tutorial i downloaded from NeHe's website, renders almost nothing, it's just to illustrate how to use the libraries to get a rendering window up and running. here's the error i'm getting: XF8

$DISPLAY

2002-12-18 Thread Chris Burns
Hey all, I dotn' think my $DISPLAY variable is set correctly. I'm trying to run an X program on a remote computer through ssh. It says: Cannot create window - please check your DISPLAY environment variable. So i checked the value of $DISPLAY and it is blank. I'm not sure what to set it to.

Re: Still no sound

2002-12-17 Thread Chris Burns
Hey, I think i got it working. I needed to add my username to the group "audio" and then it seems to work fine. =/ I wish i had known it was that simple! It seems i have a lot to learn. =) Thanks for your help Kent Chris~ Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Chris Burns

Re: Still no sound

2002-12-17 Thread Chris Burns
k, here's what i got when i did that, it looks like maybe you're right: fooberman@meredith:/dev$ ps ax | grep arts 750 pts/2S 0:00 grep arts what's next? chris~ Kent West wrote: If you're running KDE or Gnome, a KDE or Gnome sound daemon might be getting "in the way". That ca

Still no sound

2002-12-17 Thread Chris Burns
that you need to pass specific options to the >kernel, or that you need to have a specially compiled kernel to support it >(both are relatively easy to do if you know exactly what you want). sean On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 06:42:13PM -0600, Chris Burns wrote: > hi, > > I instal

no sound

2002-12-16 Thread Chris Burns
hi, I installed the most recent stable version of Woody, and my soundcard is not recognized at all. It's like i dotn' even have one. No sound at all for anything. When i installed Woody, i attempted to add the driver modules that appeared to best match my card (SoundBlaster Live) and it failed