3d hardware acceleration

[twintexel2]

hey, here's a guy who owns a pIII 866 MHz, nVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 AGP running RedHat 7.3. somebody please help me with the correct drivers for my system, and pls advise on how to enable hardware acceleration in linux on my card?

[bwkaz]

Most of the time, you can just go to nVidia's driver page (that's http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123 for the moment), and grab the NVchooser script they have there. Save it to somewhere convenient (your home directory would work fine), and open up a terminal. Run sh NVchooser.sh from whichever directory you saved the script to, and it should tell you which files to download.

If it says something about .src.rpm, then you'll need a bunch of other things installed before you start, but I don't think it will say that for RH 7.3 -- assuming the default kernel and all that.

[Anthaus]

If you don't know how to upgrade your kernel, don't read any further.

Upgrade your kernel to 2.4.18-10.i686 (as well as the kernel-source) and use the precompiled NVIDIA-kernel.
RH7.3 comes with kernel 2.4.18-3 by default and it's not very stable.
If you dare to install through tarballs go all the way to kernel 2.4.18-17.7.x and:
tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.blah.blah.blah
tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.blah.blah.blah
cd NVIDIA_kernel.blah.blah.blah
make install
cd ..
cd NVIDIA_GLX.blah.blah.blah
make install.
Don't forget to tweak your XF86Config-4 file.

If you have the time, read the release notes. Almost every single problem you may find is covered in there.

Err... did that answer your question? :o