Re: Nvidia support in Mandrake (or some other distro)?

From: I R A Darth Aggie (hfrarg_at_nttvr2x3.pbgfr.arg)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: 15 Dec 2004 13:40:54 GMT

On 15 Dec 2004 09:44:43 GMT,
Mike Dee <emteedee@optushome.com.au>, in
<Xns95C0E753D481Bemteedee@130.133.1.4> wrote:

>+ No, that's not [quite] correct. nVidia distributes current compiled
>+ Linux 3D drivers for their chipsets, but not [any] Mac/PPC binary
>+ AFAIK. I may be wrong, I'm just finding it hard to find any info
>+ saying otherwise.

Just angle over to http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html and see all
the beautiful IA32, IA64 and AMD64 drivers. I don't see anything
remotely like PPC drivers for linux.

So, making an educated guess: one has to use the xserver's "nv"
driver, which isn't accelerated.

James 

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