Re: [PLUG] mobo angst

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

Yeah, the nVidia driver is better than the "nv" driver.  On my PC with a 
GeForce 2 GTX card I tried to play Tux Racer with the nv driver.  The nv 
driver doesn't provide hardware acceleration, so the game was impossibly 
slow.  I just downloaded the pair of small files from the nVidia site 
and now the game runs smooth.

(The NVchooser.sh script is neat.  It recommends the files that match 
your system.  It recommended the Athlon RPM for my system, which I used 
without a problem.  I was going to install the i686 RPM since that's 
what "uname -a" reports even though I have an Athlon CPU.  In any case, 
whether I was right or the script was right, the script's advice hasn't 
caused a problem.)

Using the nVidia driver on my laptop with a GeForce2 Go card, however, 
causes a power management problem.  I have an Inspiron 8100.  Do you 
have any nVidia related problems on your laptop?

Iman Mayes wrote:

> I actually have the Nvidia drivers running on my laptop with RedHat 8.0. I
> have an Inspiron 4200 which has an Nvidia graphics chipset. You may want to
> give the drivers a shot.
>  
>
>  

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