TNT 2 drivers for RH 8.0

[DJ]

I would like to install the newest drivers for my vid card but am unsure which to download, the options are

[voidmain]

IA32 is likely the driver you need depending on your processor. That usually means "Intel Architecture 32 bit". All Pentium processors are 32 bit. Now the question is what your processor is. The i386/i586/i686 have nothing to do with the video card, but with the processor:

http://voidmain.kicks-ass.net/redhat/what_does_386_586_686_mean.html

And if you have any doubt there is a script you can download and run which will tell you exactly what you need:

ftp://download1.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-4191/NVchooser.sh

[ December 18, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[voidmain]

On a related note, I just downloaded and installed the new drivers. I have a small problem with the 4191 GLX drivers. They work perfectly at the console of my desktop, but when remotely connected from my laptop (via XDMCP) to my desktop machine (the one with the nVidia card) the GL apps do not work. For example, with the 3123 GLX drivers I could run "glxgears" and all of the GL screen savers worked. Not so with the 4191 drivers. Again, this will only effect you if you remotely connect to your machine in a "terminal server" like environment.

I reverted back to the 3123 kernel modules with the 3123 GLX libraries and everything works just fine..

[ December 18, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[KernelPanic]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
On a related note, I just downloaded and installed the new drivers. I have a small problem with the 4191 GLX drivers. They work perfectly at the console of my desktop, but when remotely connected from my laptop (via XDMCP) to my desktop machine (the one with the nVidia card) the GL apps do not work. For example, with the 3123 GLX drivers I could run "glxgears" and all of the GL screen savers worked. Not so with the 4191 drivers. Again, this will only effect you if you remotely connect to your machine in a "terminal server" like environment.

I did work around the problem by continuing to use the 4191 kernel modules with the 3123 GLX libraries.

void can you see any advantage to going from 3123 to 4191? Is it worth my time?

[voidmain]

The only reason I can see for upgrading is if you are having problems with the current drivers. I did not have any problems with mine, and like I mentioned I didn't have any problems until I upgraded to the new drivers. I didn't do any real stress testing other than running glxgears and UT. I didn't notice any differences, of course they ran perfectly with the last revision.

I did add a couple of more settings to my XF86Config, like hardware cursor shadowing and Render Accel. I believe those options were available in the last version. The only real reason I installed them was to make sure there were no changes in the installation method in case the original poster needed some more help.