On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:20:00PM +0530, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: > Hi, > > I have an Asus A7vm266 ( something like that) motherboard. It uses nforce 2 > chipset. > had lot of problems gettin drivers to work on win98 se. made system > unstable. > u might be better off with XP. > > Win98se drivers seem problematic. spent almost like a week tryin to get it > to work. > > about geforce, check Nvidia's site for drivers. they do have 3d > acceleration support. did u download the driver from their site? u might > have to do some tuning. just check the download for instructions. should be > in readme file > > HTH, > Sanjay > > > > > > Scarletdown > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-users <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > ter.net> cc: > > Subject: OT - nForce, GeForce and > VMWare > 27/01/2004 12:36 > > PM > > > > > > > > > > I'm finally giving VMWare a whirl, and am hoping someone here can help. > > VMWare installed okay, and I was able to set up a virtual machine with > Windows-98SE. However, I am unable to get sound working, and am also > having some video issues. > > My motherboard uses the nForce-2 chipset, with onboard sound. I was > able to get the nForce Linux drivers up and running, and have sound > outside of VMWare, but sound is disabled on 98SE within the VMWare > virtual machine. > > I was hoping that just installing the 98 drivers off the CD that came > with my board would do the job, but the installer claims that there is > no compatible hardware installed. > > As for video, I am currently using the driver that comes with VMWare, > VMWare SVGA-2. That enabled me to set my resolution properly (1024x768 > - 32-Bit color). However, that particular driver doesn't allow > realization of my video card's full potential. The card is a 256MB > GeForce 5600 FX. Like with the nForce drivers, the nVidia drivers for > Linux are working fine, but I can't get certain features working under > Linux, specifically Direct 3D, and the Windows installer for the video > card does not see the card as a compatible device. So what does it take > to enable 3D features under VMWare? I'm trying the Windows version of > America's Army as my test app, and it won't run because Direct 3D isn't > working. > > Any advice on these problems? > > Thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What are you trying to do? It sounds like you might be better off installing Windows XP, or maybe, just maybe installing Debian since this is a Debian mailing list. Also Direct 3d is a Windows only graphics layer, Whats wrong with using Nvidia Linux drivers, and OpenGL, do some research, a lot of people have gotten their Nvidia Chipsets to work in Linux. You might also want to post to a VMWare mailing list about your VMware problems. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
