On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:
> I've noticed that there are new XFree86 RPMs on
>http://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/rawhide.redhat.com/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ and new
> nVidia drivers on http://www.nvidia.com/drivers/xfree86_40.html - and was
> wondering if it's worth upgrading, to try and get the poxy thing working.
>> However, XFree86 4.0-16 needs glibc2.2 - reckon installing that would
> break much ?
Don't know about breakage, I just got a new PC and decided to try
Mandrake 7.1, the NVidia stuff works, playng quake arena in 1024x768
very smooth, no idea how many FPS, certainly more than I could
possibly notice.
I downloaded the 0.9-2 drivers first of all and it all went nicely,
when I tried 0.9-3 last night it wouldn't work at all so I just
switched back (didn't try very hard though).
What if you nabbed the source RPM for XF4 and compiled it locally, that
might solve you glibc version problem...
Fergal
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