The open source drivers may work for the GeForce 256 but they do not work for the GeForce 2 Mobile that the Inspiron 8100 comes with even for just running X windows. Believe me, I have one.
That's not to say that there is no way to make the open source drivers work but, in my research when troubleshooting that problem, I found no references to making them work. Everyone indicated that you had to get the nVidia drivers. -- Quintin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 7:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Will Mandrake 8.1 run on this system? On Wednesday 14 November 2001 10:35 pm, you wrote: > What do you know ... that's my laptop (except for the UXGA screen). I run > LM8.1 without any problems. > > The only catch will be changing over to the nVidia drivers. He will have > to go to nVidia's Linux download site, get the drivers and configure them > post install. There are pretty good instructions on how to do this at > mandrakeuser.org as well as a PDF file on nVidia's site that outlines all > the various optional configuration parameters available. He will only need Nvidia drivers if the machine is to be used for hardware accelerated games. I've just installed 8.1 using the generic opensource Nvidia drivers. Hardware is 17" crt monitor @ 1152x864 ?? with GeForce 256 64Mb SDR Ram For games I use Windoze coz linux is still lightyears behind in this area, Hopefully this will change in the future. Rob
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