Hi, I've installed Redhat linux 8.0. Everything works fine except that 3D games are not working. My Graphic card is "NAVIDIA Geforce 2MX 400". I went to their web-site and looked for the drivers, and I found the drivers only for Redhat 7.3. So I have no choice but to install it according to their instruction and finally my X-Server cannot be started. So I had to re-install the OS. Before I use Redhat 8.0, I used Mandrake 8.2 and it was perfectly fine. The Mandrake installed the driver itself and 3D games are perfect. So I like to know whether Redhat 8.0 originally support the 3D. And Can anybody tell me how to solve my problem? Do I need to change my Graphic card? please help me!!!!

Ok I already knew what is going on. Redhat doesn't support any of the closed source software adn drivers. The "nVidia" graphic cards drivers are closed source drivers so Redhat doesn't include in its distribution. I think I better stick with Mandrake because it support the closed software and drivers so it has a wide range of driver sopport. It is not very convenient to always find the dirvers and install and sometimes crash the whole system if your are unfortunate. No matter how hot the Redhat 8.0 is, Mandrake is still the best for the Home/desktop use I think because of the above reason. The desktop/home users use 3Dgames, TVs, web-cam, digital camara and a lot of other stuffs and so, Mandrake with more hardware support is more suitable I think.

Since the NVidia 3D drivers are proprietary, Red Hat cannot include them on the install. You'll need to download the source SRPMs (NOT the binaries) for the latest kernel and and build the new RPMs (which will compile the drivers). You can then install the two new RPMs. The simplified reason why you need to build from source is this. The RH8.0 kernel and it's modules where all compiled with the version 3.2 compilers, while RH7.3 used version 2.96. Sometimes old binary modules won't work with a kernel compiled with a newer version compiler. Building from source should work, unless there are other issues with the drivers to make them incompatible with RH8.0. GLX driver NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.src.rpm Kernel driver NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm One last thing, in RH8.0, there's a new rpmbuild command that's separate from the rpm command. Good luck.

Hi, where can i get the rpmbuild ? It doesnt seem to come with my system - or what part of the packages included with the dist, does contain the rpmbuild ?