DStar

My rig:

Five year old, dirt cheap Enlight case with Antec TP 430W PSU and a 120mm fan added to side panel and baybus

Epox 8RDA+ NForce2 chipset (old, pre-400MHz FSB version :( )

Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2.2 GHz (183x12) cooled by SLK-800+Smartfan II with manual speed control

512MB RAM (2x256MB TwinMOS-Winbond) at aggressive timings

Radeon 9700 Pro (Connect3D)

Audigy2 (plain, retail)

160GB Maxtor DiamondMax9 (8MB Cache), 7200 RPM

120GB WD "JB" 8MB Cache, 7200 RPM

Lite-On 52X/24X/52X

Stuff outside the box: 19" Sony 420GS, Key Tronic el-cheapo keyboard, Logitech MX700 mouse, Logitech Z-560 Speakers, Logitech SF-3D joystick

Getting a 19" LCD next month My Sony CRT is almost 5 years old and it's getting blurry and sometimes the image is all warped and I have to turn off and then turn on the monitor to fix it.

I'm keeping the rest of the setup until next fall when I'm planning to build an Athlon64 SFF rig.

Hi. I'm having a problem I'm hoping someone can help me with.

I have Mandrake 9.2 installed (download edition). I downloaded the ATI drivers for XFree 4.3.0 from ATI's website and installed them using urpmi, hoping to get hardware accelerated OpenGL. I had to use --allow-force. I also had to download the kernel source (40MB on dialup) because for some reason Mandrake didn't seem to think normal users need the kernel source and didn't include it in the ISOs.

A wizzard guided me through the configuration, allowing me to choose screenmodes, number of FSAA samples etc. and wrote the XF86Config-4 file. At the end, it said install was succesfully completed. 2D works fine, just like it did before, but 3D performance is unchanged. Tux Racer still runs at about 1 FPS and there's no sign of FSAA even though I selected 4 samples in the configuration wizzard.

I'm running:

8RDA+ (NForce2 chipset), XP 2400+ (@183x12), 512MB RAM, Radeon 9700 Pro (Connect3D), Audigy2.