On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 19:18, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote: > 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), do kernel revisions make the above untrue? I have downloaded (via up2date) 2.14.18-8..(I am on -7 now)..my nvidia drivers work (tnt 2 non-ultra) on my current kernel..however when i try to build then under -8 it tells me buildmaster is not installed - as root...I did get the -8 src files as well. are there specific nvidia files for each 2.4.18-X? > 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. -- lovswr1 <lovswr1@earthlink.net> -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
