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taskara Advocate
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 3763 Location: Australia
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2002 3:07 am Post subject: configuring X for gf3 |
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I have a gf3 and am wondering what the best way would be to config X.
xfree86 4.2.0 supports gf3, but when I run xf86config - and it asks me to choose a video adapter what best suits my video card, all I can find is "geforce".
is this right ? is there no specific entry for gf3 etc?
what I have done is choose "geforce" from the list and just install the nvidia drivers - everything works well.
however, am I getting the full potential out of my gf3 ? or is this wasted due to lack of configuration ?
any assistance to help me understand this would be most appreciated |
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fghellar Bodhisattva
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 856 Location: Porto Alegre, BR
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2002 3:15 am Post subject: |
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The only info I have comes from http://www.xfree.org/current/Status22.html:
Support (accelerated) for the Riva 128, 128ZX, TNT, TNT2 (Ultra, Vanta, M64), GeForce (DDR, 256), Quadro, GeForce2 (GTS, Ultra, MX), GeForce3, and Quadro2 is provided by the "nv" driver. _________________ | www.gentoo.org | www.tldp.org | www.google.com | |
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taskara Advocate
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 3763 Location: Australia
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2002 3:26 am Post subject: |
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yeah, so according to that, cards up to (and including) gf3 are supported by xfree 4.2.0, but the quadro cards only by the nv driver
so am I doing something wrong, or is this how it's supposed to be... |
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Nitro Bodhisattva
Joined: 08 Apr 2002 Posts: 661 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2002 3:31 am Post subject: |
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Make sure that you have emerged nvidia-glx, and nvidia-kernel, now update you XF86Config-4 to read: Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 3"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
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Make sure you have the NVdriver module loaded prior to starting X, put it in /etc/modules.autoload. _________________ - Kyle Manna
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