GF4mx 440 PCI
 

I don't know if this is cheeky or rude...

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=28616

that's a link to a thread i've got going in NvForums, but its not seeing much action. its about getting a GF4mx440 PCI to work in linux (it works fine in win98se), which im having trouble with. i can get it to install fine but the linux openGL performance is poor and stutters.

i'd be grateful if anyone could help or even just say if they've been having the same problem, as i dont yet know if its a common problem (i dont 'think' im doing anything obviously wrong ;) ). thanks.

Download linux driverz at nvidia.com.

i've tried drivers 5336, 4496 & I'm just about to try 5328 & 4363.

Did you replace nv by nvidia in your XF86setup config file?

yes. heres the two important bits from my XF86Config:

**********************************************************************
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
#
Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.

Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection

# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
# Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"

# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
# Load "dri"

EndSection


**********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of graphics device sections may be present

# Standard VGA Device:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"

# The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override
# the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.

# Chipset "generic"

# The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
# indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.

Driver "vga"
# The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
# this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device
# section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI
# devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not
# normally be included unless there is more than one video device
# intalled.

# BusID "PCI:0:10:0"

# VideoRam 256

# Clocks 25.2 28.3

EndSection

# Device configured by xf86config:

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce"
#Driver "nv"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "1"
Option "CursorShadow" "1"
Option "NvAGP" "0"
#VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
vendorname ""
boardname ""
EndSection