Quake 3 on a Fedora 2 not working ok

[Alexandre Van Haecke]

Hi all,

I have just installed the latest nVidia driver (version IA32
x86-1.0-6106) with the Fedora 2 kernel  2.6.6-1.435 on an i686 athlon
(1.3 Ghz Thunderbird).
I jumped to test the new config (to sum it up : Fedora 2 kernel 
2.6.6-1.435, nVidia driver x86-1.0-6106, athlon 1.3 Ghz Thunderbird,
GeForce 4 Ti 4200, RAM 768 Mo, Asus A7V133 with NorthBridge Via KT133A) 
with the ultimate benchmark (at least to that proc generation) Quake 3
(version 1.32b) !
End result : it works but it's hardly playable, as it swaps every 10
sec. The system did not show that kind of behavior with Fedora 1 and 2.4
kernels (with the corresponding nVidia drivers and of course XFree86).
So my questions are : has anyone observed the same behavior, and what
component should I blame for it (the kernel, the nVidia driver, Xorg..)
?

Thanks,