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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 14:06:23 CDT

Preethi,
  Go get NVidia drivers from the NVidia web site, I assume they still
support the Riva128 chips with the newest drivers, and it ought to help
you cure your performance problem. A newer card would also be MUCH
faster (>= 20x for VMD) than a Riva128, but you're probably aware of
that already.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:33:48PM -0400, preethi_at_bu.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having problems with the hardware accelerated graphics utility on my linux
> system.From an earlier mail in the VMD-L mailing list I realise the
> error "XFREE86:DRI missing on display 0:0" on opening VMD indicates the driver
> used by my systen for the videocard does not support hardware accelerated
> graphics. The videocard used is RIVA128 and the driver "nv".In the earlier mail
> the driver "nv" was changed to "nvidia" and that solved the problem.However in
> my system there is no nvidia driver.What do I do about it?
> Preethi 

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