[Sheflug] quake2/VMware

["Steve Fisher" <steve.fisher [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I actually got quake2 up and running last night, it was barely playable, the
colours were green tinged and the window was like an letterbox but vertical
not horizontal.  I have a creative blaster riva tnt2 m2 with 32mb of memory,
which is OK, but getting a bit long in the tooth, I tried installing the
nvidia drivers from the website, but gave up as it was late and I kept
crashing the X server (I copied the config file before I made changes, so it
was easy to recover). So..............

How easy is it to change a video card?

Any recommendations on a cheap upgrade?

How can I screen shot the error messages? (X server is not running whilst
installing drivers so I am a bit lost!) or can I dump to a log file??

Vmware - I downloaded last night to tinker with it.  MDK9.2 is not supported
and does not run (It does nearly though).  Does anybody use VMware?  If I
install another distro into my w2k partition can it see my Mandrake
partition and access the files.  If it can it would be the ideal solution
for work, I could have both running.

Cheers




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