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exerd

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Posted: Oct. 15 2004,16:51

Hi i´ve just installed dsl on my computer with a geforce 4 card but i don´t think that the grapiccard is installed correctly because all movies i play lags. How do i see what grapiccard i have installed and how do i install it? ps im pretty new to linux.

skaos

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Posted: Oct. 16 2004,14:09

DSL comes with generic X-server (I guess that in winspeak you could call that a graphics driver) which I believe isn't able to use any graphics acceleration. If you have a pretty new computer (more than 128-256 MB), I suggest that you try Knoppix or some Knoppix based distro that comes with the full XFree86 X-server (which should be able to use acceleration).

cbagger01

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Posted: Oct. 16 2004,17:37

FYI,

The Xvesa server that is built into DSL does have some 2D acceleration, but 3D acceleration is not supported.

The Nvidia graphics cards usually have very good VESA support, so they should work just fine with DSL.

Just don't try to play DOOM3 while running DSL :-)

ke4nt1

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Posted: Oct. 16 2004,17:49

Actually, with a decent CPU and Graphic card, games like
Doom2, Quake2, Heretic2, RT2, etc.. play nicely with DSL
in software rendering mode..

73
ke4nt

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