[ale] question about ASUS vid cards in RH 7.2

Calvin Harrigan charrig at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 2 22:49:35 EST 2002


I have an ASUS 7100 geforce2mx and it works quite well with the nvidia 
drivers noted below.  Setup isn't that hard either...

On Tuesday 02 April 2002 10:13 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Lance,
>
> I don't know that card in particular, but I have managed to get tux
> racer to run on my nvidia TNT2. The "magic" is activating the _hardware_
> OpenGL. The software stuff, like Mesa, won't work for tux racer, and
> other heavy graphics games that use OpenGL (Soldier of Fortune is
> another).
>
> So what you are looking for is driver that support the OpenGL in the
> hardware. There should be some docs on www.xfree86.org
>
> OK. The GeForce2 is an NVIDIA chip. They have drivers for linux that
> will do what you want. The only catch is they are not open source. But
> they work great. Look here:
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux
>
> You will need both the GLX and the kernel modules.
>
> Then hang on to your butt cheeks 'cause tux racer is a pretty sweet
> game!
>
> On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 21:53, LANCE CROCKER wrote:
> > hey this is just a curious question :)
> >
> > I have an ASUS 7700 GeForce 2 GTS vid card w/ 32 MB DDR on it. I would
> > like to know if any of you have ever had any problems w/ this card while
> > running RedHat 7.2. If you have please tell or at least suggest a
> > different card that has the same amt of power and works well with RH.
> >
> > If you haven't had any problems or are currently running RH7.2 w/ this
> > card then please tell me how to get my to work ( besides just the simple
> > stuff that is XConfigurator). I would really like to play tux racer on my
> > PC :)
> >
> > anyway thanks ahead of time
> >
> > lance
> >
> > P.S. : i really enjoy reading the emails on this list it is helping learn
> > faster :)

-- 
Calvin...

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