Nvidia GeFoce4 MX 440 Driver Problems
 

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)

First off, I'm a linux newb. Now that that's out of the way, here's the problem. I installed Redhat 9.0. Everything worked great, except I needed to update my drivers for my video card, wich is a GeForce MX440(64mb Ram). I downloaded the pre-compiled IA32 package from the Nvidia website, and installed it with no problems. Except now, whenever I try to run a 3D accelerated game, it doesn't work. Redhat sees the video card, but the 3D acceleartion doesn't work. Tux Racer just crashes, and I've tried several games with winex, all of witch give errors when trying to run in anything but software rendering. Any suggestions?

so your saying that after installing the drivers, and after you made all required changes in the xf86config file to load glx and the nvidia driver, that you cant play 3d games?

From my /etc/X11/XF86Config

# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidiamx440"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "RenderAccel" "On"
Option "NoLogo" "On"
Option "HWCursor" "On"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP, TV"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"


Also have a look in /etc/modules.d/nvidia and uncomment this:
options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1\


Good Luck.

try and run a 3d gane from a terminal and get the error message

je_fro i dont' think that directory exists in redhat and also i think that things you are uncommenting are for getting around the "bug" in getting the drivers to work on a board with the kt400 chipset.