GeForce 2 MX400

gusgorman · 03-25-2003, 05:12 PM

I was thinking of buying a GeForce 2 MX400 64 Mb graphics card, but was wondering whether Xfree supports this card for openGL (via dri or glx or whatever), because i'm not too keen on having to use binary drivers from nvidia.

I'm running xfree-4.3 on Slackware-9, btw.

Thanks.

chens_83 · 03-25-2003, 05:31 PM

i have installed one of these things on redhat 7.2 , anyways i tried without the nvidia driver and it was proving to be a real pain because unless there is the exact chipset suportted for your card.. If you update your xfree then you will find there is much more support.

btw why not use the nvidia binary? Its there and has been written why not use it?. It certainly fixed me the hassle of actually finding a new xfree server that supports it.

why not actually go to the site and find if there has been support written for it?

acid_kewpie · 03-25-2003, 05:32 PM

it will work at a comfortable level with the native X support but not for OpenGL etc without the binary drivers... that's the whole point of it. if it did work fine you'd never know the nvidia drivers existed, indeed they probably wouldn't.

gusgorman · 03-25-2003, 05:40 PM

Thanks for the replies. I thought I might have to use binary drivers, but this started me wondering:
http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status23.html

chens_83 · 03-25-2003, 08:40 PM

sorry forgot bout the gl stuff... derr. yeh it should work with just the standard X stuff.

When i was playing round x would not even start as there wasnt really a exact driver for the chipset gf4 mx

Anyways when i installed the nvidia driver i went straight into x windows then straight to tux racer, which totally kicks ass on the machine i was using