[ale] Yellow Dog Video Problems

[James P. Kinney III]

The nvidia drivers are the only thing that actually work well with
Linux. The "nv" drivers that ship with X will only do 2D and not that
well.

Under RedHat, one can download the NVidia driver installer, install the
kernel headers (for the prepackaged kernels), and run the installer and
follow the directions of modifying the X config. The end result will be
a _very_ powerful OPenGL 3D graphics system that performs on par with
the Windows version.

I don't know if the same process will work for Yellowdog due to the
endianess of the system. It's worth a try.

At least load up the PC with the drivers from NVidia. I have used
several versions of the TNT chipset here with terrific success.

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:42, Keeler, James wrote:
> My setup:  Mac G4 dual proc at 933 Mhz each, 512 MB Ram, nVidia
> GeForce 4 video card, dual booting OS X and Yellow Dog 3 which share a
> 60 GB HDD
> 
> My problem:  I can only run 40-50% of the installed screensavers and
> the ones that do run are very jumpy.  I'm a Linux noob but can move
> around on a computer pretty well.  I have looked for drivers but alas,
> neither Yellow Dog nor nVidia have drivers for Linux running on a
> Mac.  The other tech in my department installed Red Hat 9 on his PC at
> home and is having a VERY similar problem.  His video card is a nVidia
> TNT, and his PC has an AMD mobo.
> 
> Yellow Dog is based on Red Hat, so it is not surprising that they have
> similar problems.  My issue is that I can't find anything to help me
> fix the problem.
> 
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> James R. Keeler, MCSE
> 
> Information Systems Specialist
> 
> Hamilton County Sheriff's Office
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