Re: NVIDEA GeForce2

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:52:18PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > 
> > >   Any distribution with XFree86 v4.x or later will work fine with a Geforce 2 
> > > as long as you use NVIDIA's drivers.  Unfortunately, using NVIDIA's drivers 
> > > can be more complicated than using a driver that comes with XFree86, but if 
> > > you want to use 3D-accelerated, OpenGL software then its worth the trouble.
> > 
> > The nVIDIA site has instructions on how to install the drivers.  It was
> > pretty clear and simple to do.  (The instructions on TV-OUT were less
> > so, however.)
> 
> Notice that, from reading debian user mailing list, almost all people
> complaining about troubles with X, mostly are having trouble with the
> nvidia proprietary drivers. So saying that they are pretty clear and
> simple to install is probably very far from the truth.

Fortunately, though, Debian provides nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source
to mitigate that problem somewhat.  Unfortunately very few newbies have
heard of these packages and tend to go directly to NVIDIA's site.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <[email protected]>

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