Nvidia drives on nonnvida card

darin3200 · 03-27-2003, 09:38 PM

I have a generic card that works pretty well and tux racer is slow. I did a search

and found most other people with same problem didn't have the right drivers. Well my card doesn't have linux drivers, would I really screw it up with nvidia drivers. If so what drivers should I use?

wapcaplet · 03-27-2003, 09:53 PM

I would be really surprised if nvidia drivers worked (at all) for non-nvidia cards

What is your card? If it is generic, it's possible that it uses some standard chipset that XFree86 knows about. Does it support hardware acceleration? If not, Tuxracer is already as fast as it can get, since it uses OpenGL and depends on hardware acceleration.

AquamaN · 03-27-2003, 09:58 PM

Not to be mean, but do you play basketball on an ice rink? The chipset of your card is not an Nvidia chipset, so it won't work.

-AquamaN

Timothy Miller · 03-28-2003, 05:32 AM

What chipset is your card actually based on? it's always possible you can find drivers out there for it. But as everyone else said, installing the nvidia drivers won't help at all, unless the card DOES happen to be based on an older nvidia chipset (like the TNT2), since many noname" boards of a year or 2 ago used chipsets like that since they were a dime a dozen.

wapcaplet · 03-28-2003, 06:16 AM

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Originally posted by AquamaN
Not to be mean, but do you play basketball on an ice rink? The chipset of your card is not an Nvidia chipset, so it won't work.

Gee, that was helpful.

Timothy makes a good point - the nvidia drivers might just work if the card uses an nvidia-chipset knockoff. (Hey, it worked for Soundblaster). But probably your best bet is to figure out what chipset it actually does use. If you know the model number or manufacturer of your card, you can do a google search on it and hopefully turn up some more info.

darin3200 · 03-28-2003, 07:32 AM

I did a google search for my motherboard model number and I got one site for harley davidson parts, this should be fun

wapcaplet · 03-28-2003, 07:45 AM

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Originally posted by darin3200
I did a google search for my motherboard model number and I got one site for harley davidson parts, this should be fun

Yeah, Harley-Davidson doesn't offer much Linux support...

What I meant was to search for your video card, not motherboard (or is your video card integrated?)

What video card do you have, by the way? Maybe someone else here has had experience with it and could offer some advice.

darin3200 · 03-28-2003, 07:51 AM

The is integrated into the board. For the card is says
VGA
-embeded 256-bit 3D AGP Graphics Accelerator
wtih 64 mb frame buffer

wapcaplet · 03-28-2003, 08:31 AM

What is the model number of your motherboard?

xwings · 03-28-2003, 10:26 AM

check the mother board site and looks for the driver/

darin3200 · 03-28-2003, 04:11 PM

ECS K7SOM motherboard.
Edit
Never mind that, I went into harddrake2 and I found I have a SiS650/651/740 GUI 2D/3D Accelerator, now for some googling
Edit
I went to SIS's site

Quote:

We provide the generic drivers including:

- Chipset patches / Utilities , such as AGP,IDE..etc
- Graphic drivers for integrated chipset and GPU
- Lan & integrated Lan driver
- integrated Audio drivers
- Linux drivers

I go into the download center and it keeps timing out, maybe later tonight.