[ale] question about ASUS vid cards in RH 7.2

[James P. Kinney III]

Lance,

I don't know that card in particular, but I have managed to get tux
racer to run on my nvidia TNT2. The "magic" is activating the _hardware_
OpenGL. The software stuff, like Mesa, won't work for tux racer, and
other heavy graphics games that use OpenGL (Soldier of Fortune is
another). 

So what you are looking for is driver that support the OpenGL in the
hardware. There should be some docs on www.xfree86.org

OK. The GeForce2 is an NVIDIA chip. They have drivers for linux that
will do what you want. The only catch is they are not open source. But
they work great. Look here:

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux

You will need both the GLX and the kernel modules. 

Then hang on to your butt cheeks 'cause tux racer is a pretty sweet
game!

On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 21:53, LANCE CROCKER wrote:
> hey this is just a curious question :)
> 
> I have an ASUS 7700 GeForce 2 GTS vid card w/ 32 MB DDR on it. I would like to know if any of you have ever had any problems w/ this card while running RedHat 7.2. If you have please tell or at least suggest a different card that has the same amt of power and works well with RH. 
> 
> If you haven't had any problems or are currently running RH7.2 w/ this card then please tell me how to get my to work ( besides just the simple stuff that is XConfigurator). I would really like to play tux racer on my PC :) 
> 
> anyway thanks ahead of time
> 
> lance 
> 
> P.S. : i really enjoy reading the emails on this list it is helping learn faster :)
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