Re: GEFORCE 2 MX and LINUX

2001-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Romer
It is my understanding that DRI support in the kernel is not needed, because the nvidia driver does its own thing with DRI. Nvidia's website should have details. If you only want a good-quality X setup, simply install the latest version of XFree86 (currently 4.1.0). The 'nv' driver which comes wi

Re: GEFORCE 2 MX and LINUX

2001-08-02 Thread Michael Perry
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

Re: GEFORCE 2 MX and LINUX

2001-08-02 Thread Theodore Knab
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. Some

GEFORCE 2 MX and LINUX

2001-08-02 Thread Bernard Reißberg
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 no