Re: OT - nForce, GeForce and VMWare
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:20:00PM +0530, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an Asus A7vm266 ( something like that) motherboard. It uses nforce 2
> chipset.
> had lot of problems gettin drivers to work on win98 se. made system
> unstable.
> u might be better off with XP.
>
> Win98se drivers seem problematic. spent almost like a week tryin to get it
> to work.
>
> about geforce, check Nvidia's site for drivers. they do have 3d
> acceleration support. did u download the driver from their site? u might
> have to do some tuning. just check the download for instructions. should be
> in readme file
>
> HTH,
> Sanjay
>
>
>
>
> Scarletdown
> <gsutton9503@char To: debian-users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> ter.net> cc:
> Subject: OT - nForce, GeForce and VMWare
> 27/01/2004 12:36
> PM
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> I'm finally giving VMWare a whirl, and am hoping someone here can help.
>
> VMWare installed okay, and I was able to set up a virtual machine with
> Windows-98SE. However, I am unable to get sound working, and am also
> having some video issues.
>
> My motherboard uses the nForce-2 chipset, with onboard sound. I was
> able to get the nForce Linux drivers up and running, and have sound
> outside of VMWare, but sound is disabled on 98SE within the VMWare
> virtual machine.
>
> I was hoping that just installing the 98 drivers off the CD that came
> with my board would do the job, but the installer claims that there is
> no compatible hardware installed.
>
> As for video, I am currently using the driver that comes with VMWare,
> VMWare SVGA-2. That enabled me to set my resolution properly (1024x768
> - 32-Bit color). However, that particular driver doesn't allow
> realization of my video card's full potential. The card is a 256MB
> GeForce 5600 FX. Like with the nForce drivers, the nVidia drivers for
> Linux are working fine, but I can't get certain features working under
> Linux, specifically Direct 3D, and the Windows installer for the video
> card does not see the card as a compatible device. So what does it take
> to enable 3D features under VMWare? I'm trying the Windows version of
> America's Army as my test app, and it won't run because Direct 3D isn't
> working.
>
> Any advice on these problems?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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What are you trying to do?
It sounds like you might be better off installing Windows XP, or maybe, just maybe
installing Debian since this is a Debian mailing list.
Also Direct 3d is a Windows only graphics layer, Whats wrong with using Nvidia
Linux drivers, and OpenGL, do some research, a lot of people have gotten their Nvidia Chipsets
to work in Linux.
You might also want to post to a VMWare mailing list about your VMware problems.
Rthoreau
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