Well its been awhile and I definitly need to be catching up on my reading for configurations. History. I used RH 6.1 a long time ago. I liked it but it wasnt fesible for my needs back then. But i started reading up this site the past few weeks and i decieded to get my feet wet again. So I choice Mandrake 8.2 and the install went sweet. But when i tried to play tux it came in choppy. and annoying to play. My vid card is a diamond Viper II 540 card. I know it supports open GL in windows98( after an update patch). But thrifting threw mandrake control (?) if forget were now, but it appears the card is not showing appropriately. it shows generic s3 card which i know is the chipset of the vid card. Humm what can i do to resolve this in seeing the proper card??

suggestions or even better the exact answere highly appreciated...

I think im going to use those lovely smilies to the left sweeeeeet

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Have a read through this
http://xfree86.org/current/Status28.html#28
I think it only limits to software acceleration, which sucks. I'd recomend upgrade the video card, the fair choice is NVIDIA MX series, you can get one of these for less than 100, and if you opt for it NVIDIA website has the universal accelerated driver for all their chipsets, starting from TNT. http://nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux

check pricewatch.com, you can get a gf2 mx400 for less than 50 bucks now

Well I guess things dont look 2 gd 4 our super hero

It stinks that it took me this long to get back too this but, I am strapped for the time being. Even tho work picked up, finacially its gonna still be blah.

Now for what im gathering... all in a nut shell. The card I have cant be tweaked into doing somthing better. And swaping for the most popular nvidia chipset. I guess im gonna have to make due for now.

I have the same problem and I know it aint my video card or cpu
I have
Atholn XP 1600+
Radeon 8500 64MB
Biostar Mv7iF(or something alonf=g them lines)
512 ddr 266 ram
Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer (not working in linux yet)
Maxtor ATA133 60 gig hardrive.

I have tryed using CS in Redhat 7.3 with Wine and it gets all of 4 fps. I think TUxracer gets about half that.

Any Help?

Yep, TuxRacer is about to go into the Never-Use-Again program folder. Same Sh*t happens to me. Frame rate like 1 frame every 25 or 26 days, at best. I am sure it's my fault, but seems like I have tried everything.

I found out what my problem is. Linux is not recognising my ATA133 ide pors so I dont have DMA enabled working on it now that might be your problem too. enable dma by typing in a console.
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda (where hda is your drive) this will enable it.

I have the same problem!!!

I'm runnning RedHat Linux 8.0kde on a
Pentium 4 2.2
NVidia GeForce3 ti500 64MB
-*i don't think i have hardware acceleration enabled!!*-
512MB RAM
Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer

does anyone knows how to accelertate this card!??

If you have a nvidia card and don't have the nvidia linux driver installed then thats your problem.

do u know what driver should i install!??
[i'm running a PNYNVidia GeForce3 ti500 64MB]

thanx!

hmmm... i think i screw my video config!! haaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
does anyone knows how to fix it!??
i mean... theres no video as soon as i start linux!
one, think i want to know is how to get into a shell
so i can modify my /etc/X11/XF86Config file!

Use your redhat install disk to boot into rescue mode and edit /etc/inittab, change the default run level. Here is a section of my inittab with the run levels, redhat might be slightly different but will have the same format,
# These are the default runlevels in Slackware:
# 0 = halt
# 1 = single user mode
# 2 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3)
# 3 = multiuser mode (default Slackware runlevel)
# 4 = X11 with KDM/GDM/XDM (session managers)
# 5 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3)
# 6 = reboot

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:

This are redhat run-levels:

0 — Halt
1 — Single-user mode
2 — Not used (user-definable)
3 — Full multi-user mode
4 — Not used (user-definable)
5 — Full multi-user mode (with an X-based login screen)
6 — Reboot

what should i change!??

<b>I'm thinking on doing this:</b>
"In the graphical GRUB boot loader screen, select the Red Hat Linux boot label and press [e] to edit it.

Arrow down to the kernel line and press [e] to edit it.

At the prompt, type single and press [Enter].

You will be returned to the GRUB screen with the kernel information. Press the [b] key to boot the system into single user mode.

This should allow you to boot into single-user mode so you can re-edit inittab to its previous value.

Next, we will discuss information in the files within /etc/sysconfig that define the parameters used by different system services when they start up

Run level 3 is what you want, Full multi-user mode. Run level 5 is what you have now, Full multi-user mode (with an X-based login screen).
I always boot to run level 3 and start X with "startx", that way I never have to worry about a problem with the X server (or the nvidia drivers) making my computer unuesable.