Drivers don't work for Linux games.

[StarbuckZero]

Hey people I wanted to try this out on 2 games before I posted anything. I know this could be simple, but I have no idea on how to do it.

I install RedHat Linux 7.0 and my card showed up in the install and my test worked. The only thing is that it didn't work for any games. I installed the new drivers for my Geforce 2 from the Nivida Website and it still didn't work(they were rpms in RH7.0 format). The games would just drop out of what Window Manger I was using and back into the login screen. If I uninstall the rpms then the game works but just runs slow. Any one can help me?

P2-400
224MB of Ram
Red Hat Linux 7.0
Geforce 2
Workstation install.

[A_Lawn_GNOME]

Similar to my problem.

Read the FAQ for the official drivers. Somewhere in there they say "these only work with Quake 3 and even that is a work around." Ain't that wonderful? It probably should work with your game anyway but just thought I should throw that in.

Anyway, after uninstalling them, you revert back to Mesa which is no doubt using it's oh so wonderful _software_ renderer.

At this point you have two options:
1) Scream at Mesa and throw a temper tantrum
2) (this is from someone else, I don't know if it works) Uninstall Mesa and try the Nvidia drivers alone. I would have the current Mesa RPM's lying around just in case though.

I'm starting to think that I should do a tarball install of Mesa. I bet there's a config file in there that should fix it and the RPM, being it's usual default self, doesn't set it for me or you, in this case.

[StarbuckZero]

I'll try uninstalling Mesa and see where that gets me. I remember on Mandrake 7.1 that you have to go and delete all the Mesa lib files before installing Nvidia drivers.

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