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    Anyone else having a hard time getting HardDrake to run with this video card...

    I keep getting dropped to a totally black screen, with a cursor... I can type around and it echoes what I type back to me, but nothing really seems to happen... I can log back in and kill harddrake and my system seems fine after that.

    I have a VIA chipset, which seems to have some problems with Linux anyways... but other than this Harddrake problem (and a sound problem, but whatever) everything seems to be fine.

    Any suggestions?

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    I think this is one for DaveB3D.

    However, let me ask you: are you using a framebuffer driver or what???

    Originally posted by non_interleaved:
    Anyone else having a hard time getting HardDrake to run with this video card...

    I keep getting dropped to a totally black screen, with a cursor... I can type around and it echoes what I type back to me, but nothing really seems to happen... I can log back in and kill harddrake and my system seems fine after that.

    I have a VIA chipset, which seems to have some problems with Linux anyways... but other than this Harddrake problem (and a sound problem, but whatever) everything seems to be fine.

    Any suggestions?


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    I am using the driver that came with Mandrake... in other words I have not changed it at all...

    Should I use the one on linux.3dfx.com? I am not really interested in gaming on linux (lets be honest, gaming on linux sucks *** compared to windows)... rather I would just like to be able to run harddrake without it crashing.



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    Well, you had better grab the driver soon since 3dfx is no more...

    Originally posted by non_interleaved:
    I am using the driver that came with Mandrake... in other words I have not changed it at all...

    Should I use the one on linux.3dfx.com? I am not really interested in gaming on linux (lets be honest, gaming on linux sucks *** compared to windows)... rather I would just like to be able to run harddrake without it crashing.



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