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Old 11-16-2002, 10:34 PM   #1
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RedHat 8.0 Graphics Card


Hi. Can anyone tell me if the Leadtek Winfast A250 128mb card works with RedHat 8.0?
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Old 11-16-2002, 11:24 PM   #2
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Well it is GeForce4 card and there are drivers on http://www.nvidia.com that work for all NVIDIA cards from TNT to GeForce4 4600 Ti
 
Old 11-17-2002, 04:54 AM   #3
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the geforce 4 cards are supported by red hat 8.

red hat is nice, but they took a lot of multi-media support out of the operating system . i ended up putting red hat 7.3 back on my computer because of it. they have no mp3 music support, you have to download a plug-in for xmms player. no macro-media player or shockwave support. this is used on many web sites.

i wish red hat would offer a retail version with all this added support, like suse 8, and i would pay the added price for it.
 
Old 11-17-2002, 08:14 AM   #4
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the geforce 4 cards are supported by red hat 8.

red hat is nice, but they took a lot of multi-media support out of the operating system . i ended up putting red hat 7.3 back on my computer because of it. they have no mp3 music support, you have to download a plug-in for xmms player. no macro-media player or shockwave support. this is used on many web sites.

i wish red hat would offer a retail version with all this added support, like suse 8, and i would pay the added price for it.

Wouldn`t be much easier just to download missing stuff instead of reinstalling whole OS????
 
Old 11-18-2002, 12:31 PM   #5
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i know what you mean, but the shockwave support is in a tar gz file which i still have trouble installing. i only did it once with opera and now have forgotten how to do it. later ronss
 
Old 11-18-2002, 01:42 PM   #6
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i know what you mean, but the shockwave support is in a tar gz file which i still have trouble installing. i only did it once with opera and now have forgotten how to do it. later ronss

tar zvxf name_of_file.tar.gz

I would suggest reading man page for every command you have problems using.
 
Old 11-19-2002, 02:00 PM   #7
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thanks for the help. i am aware of the man pages, but the creation of a directory where most of my problem lies, and have a path to the directory is were i run into problems. if i can successfully install tar gz files and compile the linux the kernal, most of my problems with linux would be solved.
 
  


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