[Sderby] re:RH9 trouble

[Ian Spratt]

> Hi guys,
> as per my previous post, you will know that i received RH9 as a present
> - tried it once and reverted to RH7.2, since then I have bought another
> 256mb for my box and tried again - at the same time bringing my 3D
> Prophet 4500 card out of retirement. RH9 now runs fine, but I am having
> alsorts of problems installing the Kyro drivers from powervr.com.
> downloaded the i686 rpm OK and installed, but on the accompanying
> instructions I am completely stuck on the XF86 configuration (or maybe
> scared to death!!) - I have followed the "easy" instructions - but
> either get no X on boot - or the system just hangs. This is no doubt
> through pilot error.......hhheeeelllpppp!. stuck with VESA driver at the
> moment (boring).
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I have one of these cards, and i have *never* been able to get 3D
acceleration working with it, under debian, suse or redhat, with both
standard vendor supplied kernels or custom compiled ones.

as soon as i can afford it, i'm gonna buy an nvidia geforce card.