Confirming and testing Nvidia drivers are installed
 

How should I go about this? I did everything the instructions say. The splash screen loads. But I seam to be getting horrible performance as if were still using the default red hat 9 drivers. When I check it in the Red Hat hardware browser it still has generic next to the name although in the config-4 file I had changed the generic part to 4363, the driver version so that I could remember which were installed. Why and where is it getting this generic word from? And would this mean that it's not 100% in using my new drivers?

If you are getting the splash screen, you are using the NVIDA driver. As for poor performance, what's the card?

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Charles

it's a Geforce 4 MX420 64 megs agp. I know the mx is a poorer brand of geforce but the price was right. When I mean poor tho I mean compared to windows, more jerkiness. Visually it doesn't even look like the card is working on my screensaverrs or is that just how linux screen savers are? They look all blocky and pixelated. Perhaps there are some tweaks or something I need to do because the drivers don't set it up for optimal performance? I'm just taking stabs here. I'm used to windows, install it, restart it, and play it kind of action. Nothing needs to be tweaked except in-0game settings and such. But it seams like I might need to tweak some things from within the linux os for it to compare to windows out the box? Anyone have any good sites to point me to for this? Im having trouble finding sites that explain the 'basics'. The sites I find are over my head.

I've had trouble with the NVIDIA drivers on screensavers, too. NVIDIA GeForce 4, Mandrake 9.1, 4363 drivers. Not sure why. Older Mandrake (8.2) was better. :-(

Well I noticed that my mozilla client I was using was 1.2.0 and decided to check for an update. I saw that 1.4rc3 was out. Happily I downloaded it and installed it with EASE!!! You wouldn't believe how shocked I was at the simplicity of that. I even made a thread around here about it, just to make sure I wasn't going crazy, lol. So the browser is less jerky. I also changed a few files in the config-4 file and it seams a bit better running RtCW:ET. So I'm guessing this is more of a configuration thing rather an actual distro thing. Hopefully within time I'll be able to prove this statement. Til then, I'll be like a little elf tinkering with his tools making toys for the kids. Only the only tinkering I'll be doing is with my mouse and keyboard on my linux box and only for one kid, This Big Kid right here. Heh. Peace.

Post up your XF86Config, maybe there is a few things we can assist you with in there :)

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