I installed Mandrake 9 and also a Geforce4 420mx AGP video card. I also went through, recompiled my kernel with the nvidia drivers and changed the XConfig86-4 to show the new driver. OpenGL seems to run just as slow as before. After some messing around in the system I came across the Mandrake Control Center and the Video Card. It is listed in there correctly (NV17 Geforce4 420mx) But the drivers say it is a Geforce 2 DDR. On top of that it is reporting that it is on a PCI slot instead of a AGP. I have a Intel motherboard (D15EEA) and everything else seems to be fine in that aspect.

Is there something wrong here or am I just being a n00b?

Thanks

are you sure you're actually running the new driver? do you get the whit / green nvidia logo flash up? as for the pci/agp thing, agp is a specialised version of pci, and is located on the PCI bus, normally address 1:0:0.

The splash screen comes up just fine in the beginning.

The thing that gets me is that this card is a GeForce4 family card and the module says it is a GeForce2. Also the Bus says it is a PCI and on 2:0:0 - I have only used linux for about a week now so it is all new to me.


As far as the drivers are concerned,I have toasted my kernel twice before I finally got it right. So I am pretty sure that they are working now.