[Mesa3d-users] Re: Mesa & GeForce 3

[Stewart T. <sa....@bt...>]

As I said in my posting, although not explicitly, I have got the Nvidia 
drivers working how else would I have 3D accel working? It was also very easy 
to do once I'd read the readme file. This is a Mesa user issue because 
without it being resolved I  cannot use my graphics card to the full and use 
Mesa. There are AFAIK no other mailing lists for Mesa setup, Nvidia driver 
setup and there is no info on either the Nvidia.com site or the mesa3d.org 
site on how to get the two working together . I had thought that maybe even 
if no-one was using a GeForce 3 card with Mesa then maybe someone was using 
an Nvidia card and the Nvidia drivers and Mesa and info on how they got them 
to work might point me in the right direction to getting mine to work.

Stewart


> You need to use NVidia's OpenGL libraries and kernel driver to get 3D
> acceleration. NVidia won't/can't release their specs so only NVidia
> can provide hardware accelerated libraries for their cards. The steps
> to do this are not trivial for a Linux newbie, but the README file
> that NVidia provides does outline the exact steps. Since this is not
> a Mesa issue, you probably should find a more appropriate mailing list
> if you need help getting the NVidia drivers working.
>
> Go to www.nvidia.com and look for Linux drivers.
>
> Dave