On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 18:59, Sylvain Jodoin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Linux and just installed RH 8.0 Personal Desktop to learn > and play with it. Everything seems to work correctly besides graphics. > In fact, I just can't enable 3D hardware acceleration (the option is > shaded so I can not enable it) with the result that graphical > intensive apps are quite slow. > > I have a P-III 450 Mhz PC with a Nvidia Riva TNT2 Ultra/32MB-based > graphic board. That sounds familiar so that could be the same card that I have > Any hints, resources, pointers for newbie on how to resolve this would > be highly appreciated. If you haven't downloaded the drivers from nVidia's site, then that's the first job. There's two files, a GLX file and a Kernel file. nVidia pre-compile the drivers, so you either need to match the kernel you are running (probably 2.4.18), or you can download 'generic' files which you can rebuild - each time you upgrade the kernel you will need to reinstall the drivers for the graphic card. My personal choice would be the GLX SOURCE RPM and KERNEL SOURCE RPM. (I'd keep these on the machine in a handy location for future use). Follow the instructions, rpmbuild --rebuild the docs will say rpm --rebuild Then you may need to change /etc/X11/XF86Config, as directed in the readme file from nVidia's page. Hopefully this points you in the right direction. -- NAME : Adam Allen. EMAIL : adam@dynamicinteraction.co.uk COMMENT : ~~~~ insert your favourite signature comment here ~~~~ PGP : http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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