[lug] NVIDIA GeForce2 Go Driver & KRUD (Was Dell Utility Partition)

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "J" == J Wayde Allen <wallen at lug.boulder.co.us> writes:

J> I'm continuing to make progress setting up this laptop.  (Yeah, OK
J> slow progress since I don't get to work on it continuously.)  I
J> finally decided to nuke the Dell Utility partition and as expected
J> there have been no ill effects.

J> I'm still trying to tweak up the X-windows system though.  It
J> always amazes me how Red Hat/KRUD can do a nice pretty graphical
J> install and then not be able to start X?  Anyway, I'm getting a
J> login screen full of mottled pinkish vertical bars.  This system
J> uses the NVIDIA GeForce2 Go card and I'm wondering if the server
J> for this is part of the KRUD distribution or if I need to download
J> it?

alas... the geforce2go isn't directly supported in
XFree86-4.2.0... (rumor has it there is support in CVS now). 

So, you can do 3 things:

- - Grab X from CVS and build the nv driver yourself. ;) (Let me know if
it works!)

- - use the 'vesa' driver. This will work fine, but it won't be
accelerated, so you won't have fast games, etc... 

- - Grab the non open source Nvidia drivers from their web site and use
them: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux

J> - Wayde (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)

kevin
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