Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:
Can you use the x.org "nv" driver instead? I've never really
figured out what the binary driver buys you over the standard one,
but then all I do is run X with fvwm2, mainly for software
development, so I have never needed any "fancy" features. (I've
never had a TNT2, but I believe it's supported).
Man nv says under supported cards:
RIVA TNT2 NV5
I am having the same problem with a RIVA TNT card. Changing the
driver from nvidia to nv in /etc/X11/xorg.conf allows me to enter
X11. This is all unfortunate, however. These binary drivers provide
GLX extensions to X11 for NVIDIA cards (so I could type glxgears at
the prompt and have it actually do something). I hope this site
exists soon and someone makes a port for it; I enjoyed knowing that
if I needed to play an OpenGL game that wasn't too hardcore, I could
do it with this computer (I could actually play Quake 3 pretty well
with those drivers).
Well, I run the "nv" driver (on a much newer NVidia card, admittedly)
and I can run glxgears and get output (160-180 FPS). My modules section
of xorg.conf has
Load "glx"
and the Device section
Driver "nv"
There must be something else that the binary driver provides (or maybe
it just does it better).
--Alex
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