Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 28, 2003 08:52 PM
Tower II uses an NVidia chipset in it's graphics cards. This means you need the propritary NVidia driver for this work. The maintainers have included this driver but don't enable it by default. Their FAQ has the exact procedure but I believe you do this at the boot prompt:
lilo:morphix xmodule=nvidia
That or a slight variation of it should get 3D up to speed on your other tower. There are both political and technical reasons they do this. Technical: NVidia's driver can be EXTREMELY unstable with certain motherboard chipsets. Milage definitely varies with them. I had a very bad experience with the Via MVP3 chipset for instance. Technical: The drivers are free only in the beer sense and I think that contributes to their limited compatibility. It most definitely makes them useless on non-x86 arches.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 28, 2003 08:52 PMlilo:morphix xmodule=nvidia
That or a slight variation of it should get 3D up to speed on your other tower. There are both political and technical reasons they do this. Technical: NVidia's driver can be EXTREMELY unstable with certain motherboard chipsets. Milage definitely varies with them. I had a very bad experience with the Via MVP3 chipset for instance. Technical: The drivers are free only in the beer sense and I think that contributes to their limited compatibility. It most definitely makes them useless on non-x86 arches.
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