Where's 'TOM'? & Tuxracer is dragging his feet.

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

On 2004-10-05  5:47 -0700, Bill Stoye wrote:
> I know I used 'TOM' before but he's shown up missing! 

I do not know what you mean by "TOM".

> I would like to get 'Tuxracer' working a full speed. I'm not much of a
> game player but on occasion dink around with Tux. My card it an 'Asylum
> GeForce FX 5200 256MB', was looking to see how TOM listed it but he's
> gone(?).

You need to install the non-free nvidia drivers to get it rocking:
install the package 'linux-restricted-modules-386' pacakge (assuming
that you did not install your own kernel; otherwise use -686 or -k7)
and the package nvidia-glx. Then do

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Accept all default answers, but the one which asks for the driver; use
'nvidia' instead of 'nv' there. Then please add a line containing
'nvidia' to /etc/modules. Reboot your system, and you are done.

A fellow (Fabio) is working on a script which does all of this
automatically, so don't be afraid that this will say so complicated
for very long :-)

Can somebody pleeease add this as a FAQ?

Martin

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