You should probably download the drivers from nvidia.com and install those. The default nvidia drivers with Mandrake are fairly limited in what they can do. Plus, with an MX or higher card, you can turn on hardware rendered cursor shadowing. :) There's a readme at the bottom of the driver download page that tells you how to install it. I just grabbed the source rpm's and did an rpm --rebuild on each one. Then install the compiled rpms with rpm -ivh (they are located in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686). Then you change the driver line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 from "nv" to "nvidia". Add the "glx" module to the module section and remove the line for "dri" if it's in there. Restart X with ctrl-alt-backspace. Hopefully you'll see the nvidia logo screen flash when it starts up. The driver that comes with mandrake for geforce cards has sucky 3d support. > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Sinland [mailto:rsinland at gvtel.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:54 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] Mandrake 8.1 > > > Got a few more quick (I hope) questions. > Now that I have the modem thing figured out... > Mandrake 8.1 comes with Tux Racer right? > But how does one configure the system to actually run and > play the game? > > Use Xfree 4.? or 3.? or 3.? accelerated? > I was thinking one should be able to do this without doing > any extra d/l's, might be an error on my part. For general > information my monitor is a CTX model VL700 (linux seems to > always think it's something else) Graphics card 3d Prophet > II MX by Hercules (Guillemot) and should be an Nvidia Gforce > II (I assumed) > I messed around and did get it to run once, or at least the > opening screen, then it died. Then started messing with the > video settings in Harddrake till I manged to kill off X > alltogether :) Must be an easier way... I was allmost ready > to order the Mandrake gamers edition, but at $89.00 it had > better work better then this... Back to trial and error ... > Any suggestions welcome, and BTW I have all 3 Mandrake CD's > burned from ISO's. RS > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >