Very Computer

Hi,

    I just installed Red Hat 8.0 and I can't get my video card configured
correctly. I have an ASUS A7A-266 motherboard and a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 4x
AGP card.

    My problem is that I can't enable 3d hardware support for my card. I
tried downloading the new drivers from NVIDIA. In windows, I had this
problem, and it was an issue between the ALI M1647 chipset on my motherboard
and the NVIDIA. Is anything like this causing my problems in Linux?

Thanks!

Doug Myers

Hi Doug,

Please be more specific about your problems. One can only guess what is
going wrong with your setup. Here are a couple of hints:

1. Have you installed ALL the necessary drivers and how (RPM, tarball)?
(You write that you have tried downloading the drivers. Have you also
tried to install them according to the provided instructions? :-) Just a
hint)
2. Did you receive any error messages during the process? If yes, what
were they exactly (copy and paste into your next posting)?
3. Have you made the necessary changes to your XF86Config (append it to
your next posting if you don't know what I am talking about)?
4. If your answers were 'Yes' to 1 and 3 and 'No' to 2, what leads you to
believe that you don't have hardware 3D accelaration? Is it the greyed out
checkbox in the GUI configuration tool? If yes, you can safely ignore it
and try running a 3D application like tuxracer and check whether it's
playable or not.

I hope this helps (a little),
Andreas

Try setting your AGP to 2x on the motherboard BIOS, if you suspect
that the problem lies there.  The gracious folks on the #nvidia
channel on irc.openprojects.net are of great help as well.

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