Got networking, now missing hardware 3D graphics

[john wendel]

tom wrote:
> 
> Aside: I can not remember a Red Hat or a Fedora release that has given me
> these kinds of fits. I'm sure they have but...  Must have been a while.
> 
> To quickly recap the situation. I started by installing F10 from DVD, 
> and the networking aspect declined to function. Two reinstalls later, 
> and much fussing and fiddling, networking came up on its own with 
> Network Manager on the first boot post install. What changed is a 
> wonderful question that I have no clue about. On to the next steps 
> (obviously)
> 
> This is an old machine, and has an nVidia GeForce FX5500 video card in
> an AGP slot. I recognize the proprietary nature of nVidia's drivers, so
> it was off to RPMfusion to get the 173.X drivers/stuff. After much 
> mucking about, I finally got the nvidia driver installed such that I 
> could get something other than 640x280 (yuck!), but there is no 
> acceleration for OpenGL like there is supposed to be. The error message 
> from one application includes the phrase: "Could not create GL context".
> 
> Besides my mind, what am I missing here? Or what do I need to post to 
> find out what I'm missing? Or
> 
> HALP!
> 
> Thanks in advance for the assistance
> 

I think nvidia has dropped support for "older" graphics cards in the 
latest driver. You should research the issue on the nvidia web site, but 
I think you'll need to install an older driver.

Regards,

John