Re: Geforce2MX vid card setup

[Sean Quinlan <smq@gmx.co.uk>]

* Seth <seth@hollen.org> (2001-04-30 16:53):
> I just installed debian 2 days ago and was wondering how to get XFree86 4.0.2 
> or better installed? I have a geforce2MX video card and using the SVGA module 
> isn't working
> someone told me to add 
> deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/$(ARCH)/ 
> to my apt sources list.

The above link is for the Xfree86 4.0.2 packages for potato (since
potato only ships with Xfree86 3.3.6).  Unfortunately, if you add the
line verbatim as above (instead of substituting $ARCH for your
machine's architecture), then you'll no doubt get errors with apt-get
update or dselect's update.  These should not be fatal, since it will
just ignore those that it cannot use.

Getting back to the GeForce 2 MX... For my GeForce card, I downloaded
the tar.gz drivers on the nvidia site -
http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html - and installed
them as per the instructions in the README file.  One tip though,
getting the nvidia agp support working is not that easy, and I noticed
that my machine locked up quite often when playing Quake3 (I'd have to
ssh in and kill the quake process to restore it).  I then left the
nvidia agp support disabled (you can check the states with "cat
/proc/nv/card0" when X is running using the new nvidia driver), and
used the kernel agpgart instead, and haven't noticed and loss in
performance (my Quake3 typically averages about 150fps, so I can't
imagine it getting any better :)

> I did so but still get errors using dselect. and I managed to erase my 
> sources list along the way. 
> during the install it walked me through setting up my sources list. is there 
> another way to run that tutorial again

apt-setup

-- 
Sean Quinlan (smq@gmx.co.uk)