[ale] SuSE, Nvidia, and Quake 3

[Darien J. Watkins]

generally if you see the "nice" nvidia screen that means the nvidia
driver is installed and running. (you can turn this off though)  and if
your framerates are decent in glxgears (what are they exactly) then you
should be good to go.

It might be quake 3 that's giving you the trouble.  did you load up
nividia glx?


On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 21:19, Preston Boyington wrote:
> i grabbed a cheap agp card that is based on the nvidia geforce chipset (i think SuSE shows it to be a 440 MX) and installed it into my play machine.
> 
> upon seeing that i was not able to switch "on" 3d i downloaded the proprietary driver.  i hand edited the XF86Config file to reflect "nvidia" instead of "nv".
> 
> rebooted to a blank screen.
> 
> restarted the machine and used "no apic" and "no splash".  now when i login i see a nice nvidia splash screen and my driver shows as nvidia.
> 
> try and enable 3d and it states i must get the proprietary driver from SuSE's download site.
> 
> 5 hours later it finishes downloading the driver using Online Update (i have a horrible dialup connection because some nitwit's electric fence is bleeding into my telephone line)
> 
> still says i need to download the driver when trying to enable the card features.
> 
> that said "gears" shows the fps to be almost 3 times faster using "nvidia" than using "nv".
> 
> oh well, i don't guess i need 3d for anything... so i dug out my Quake3 arena (Loki) and thought i would load it onto this AMD 1800+, 384MB machine.  
> 
> it is unplayable.  even at 320x240 (think that is the lowest setting) you would think you were running it on a 33mhz (heck, i was looking for the "turbo" button!)
> 
> so can anyone give me a hint as to what i need to do to get this running correctly?
> 
> thanks,
> preston
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