New nvidia drivers ...

[anton]

just wanted to let you know, that new nvidia drivers are aviable :) http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux

[PuterFreaK]

Awsome! MUCH better q3 framerate!!! :D :D :D :D :D

[Gaccm]

w000t, thx @ anton. Hey, has anyone here ever gotten anti-aliasing to work in games? i tried editting that enviornment variable, but it no work :(.


new drivers = w00t.

[David Dorward]

Well according to the change log they have improved support for AMD - which is a good thing as the previous drivers have a nasty tendancy to jam all i/o on my sytem.

Looks like I'll be trying those tonight... and its also a good time to upgrade to 2.4.16 :)

Lets just hope the maintainer gets the new build package in to sid quickly so I don't have to do it manually :)

[M8ram]

Hi,

thanks for the info...

I have already posted in the hardware section that I am installing Linux RH7.2 at my university (I am a student) and that I had a prob with the video-card which is an NVidia Vanta card.

About this new drivers: I am reading the readme-file now but I can't seem to find exactly which driver I need?

Can anybody help?
The PC is a single-processor PC in a network, as I said the video-card is NVidia Vanta but I don't know what UM and SMP stand for. the i*86 I will probably figure out (that is the part you see right before the graphical login appears no?)

But the "updated to 2.4.9-13 SMP Kernel" part what does that stand for?

Thanks in advance for any input, I really would like to get this working ASAP, then I can forget all about windows ASAP as well...

[David Dorward]

IIRC SMP has to do with multi CPU machines.

I'm pretty sure that unless you manually selected a non default kernel you want the first option in the list.