Accellerated X with GeForce2 card

Alessandro Cucchiarelli yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Apr 25 01:52:01 2002


>...
>Won't work.  Nvidia's GLX module and XFree86 4.x 2D driver are provided as x86 binaries only.  If you download the "source RPM" you don't really get source.
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>The only piece Nvidia supplies source for is their kernel module, which just serves as glue between the kernel and their binary-only drivers.  If you want to run XF86 on non-Intel platforms you have to live with the open source "nv" driver in XF4, which does not do 3D.
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>Tim Seufert


I knew it, as stated in many contributions to different mailing lists (ppcusers, for example).
My point is that the "nv" driver doesn't work on my computer configuration!

Alex



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