[NBLUG/talk] Re: I can't get 3D acceleration to work

[Robert Hayes]

rdate

I use it daily. My clock 'drifts' slow, sometimes up to 15 minutes per day 
depending on the applications being run.

As root:
rdate -s time.nist.gov

will reset the system clock

hwclock --systohc

will commit the new software time to hardware.

Plop them in your cron and the livin's easy.

RH


On Sunday 23 May 2004 12:48 pm, William Tracy wrote:
> <<You're in luck.  That's probably one of the easiest
> cards to get nice,
> fast and
> stable 3d accelerated X going on.  What you need to do
> is grab the>> [snip]
>
> The reason I was posting is that I already tried all
> that and after two months of fiddling it still wasn't
> working. The nVidia driver was installed, loaded with
> X (lsmod | grep nvidia showed the module was loaded),
> but I had no hardware 3D acceleration.
>
> Just this morning I got it to work. I ran YOU for the
> first time (yow--300 megs of updates--I started
> downloading at 4:00 in the afternoon and at 1:00 AM it
> was still downloading), downloaded and installed the
> latest version of nVidia's driver through YOU (rather
> than downloading the installer from nVidia's site and
> installing manually, as I did the first time), and
> everything is working perfectly. GL-117 is fantastic.
>
> :)
>
> Another, unrelated question: My system clock keeps
> getting set to weird times (possibly a defective clock
> chip on the motherboard? I have no idea). I could have
> sworn that there was a Linux utility that lets you
> sync the system clock over the net, but now I can't
> find it. Any ideas?
>
> William
>
>
>
>
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