Livna nVidia problems...

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/23/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Tim:
> >> I seemed to have that problem, despite having a GeForce4 card that was
> >> supposedly covered by the non-legacy driver.  Though I've read
> >> conflicting information about that.
> >>
> >> Is the legacy driver also supposed to support 3D acceleration?  I got
> >> nowhere trying it.
>
> Lonni J Friedman:
> > All nvidia drivers have acclerated 3D support.
>
> Good to know.
>
> > I'm not sure what you read, but the driver README is quite clear in
> > what is supported.
>
> The conflicting information was about whether to use legacy, or not, for
> the card I was using.  I'd looked up card names and chipset names, and
> found it listed in two conflicting places.  That was on the nvidia
> website, by the way.
>
> 'tis an Asus V8420/128M Rev 101 NVidia NV25 GeForce4 Ti 4200 rev a3
> card.  If anyone knows how to make it work with FC7, I'd like to hear
> about it.  We had it working fine on FC5, long ago.

The process for installing the driver has not changed in years.  Your
NV25 is fully supported in the 1.0-9639 legacy driver.