Accellerated X with GeForce2 card
Alessandro Cucchiarelli
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Apr 24 08:35:01 2002
On my QuickSilver 733 G4 (w/ nVidia GeForce 2 MX standard card & ADC
15" Apple Studio Display) I tried the YDL 2.2, kernel 2.4.18-0.9a,
installed from the distribution CD, so having a non-accellerated X
environment (the auto-generated XFConfig-4 contains 'Driver "fbdev"'
command, even if I checked the 'use accellerated video' option during
YDL 2.2 install procedure).
In this configuration, KDE-Konqueror requires about 3 seconds to
display the contents of a folder after a 'click' on it.
As suggested by A.Joshy in a mail posted on February, to start
accellerated video I used in XFConfig-4
Driver "nv"
Option "FlatPanel"
along with the proper BusID and Identifier in the Device section, and
append="video=ofonly"
into yaboot.conf file (I launched mkofboot after the change, as
requested) but the system hangs-up at 'startx' with a black,
deep-blue or stripes-red screen (depending on the colour depth
specified, 8, 16 or 24).
Any help to solve the problem will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Alex