I have an integrated Riva 128 but can't get the driver to load. kernel version: 2.6.12.5 Driver version is 7174 (newest version that supports legacy gpu's) Dmesg says: "NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!" when I try to load the module. /proc/pci says:

I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7019000 [0xe70190ff].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: NVidia / SGS Thomson (Joint Venture) Riva128 (rev 34).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4ffffff].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6000000 [0xe6ffffff].

The nv driver works fine. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

None of the drivers on nVidia's site support cards older than the TNT. You'll have to use the default driver called 'nv' that is shipped with X.

Thanks for the information!

I don't suppose there's anyway I could get any sort of halfway decent opengl performance for pushing 2D textured triangles onto an 800x600 fullscreen screen?

I guess I'll just have to make my rendering code more abstract and add a non hardware mode.

I can't wait :) </sarcasm>

I believe that there is Riva 128 3D support, in the Utah-GLX project. It's listed as
'Works. (runs Quake!)'

http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/

It doesn't look very easy to get working though.

Awesome! It does look hard to get working but i'll take a look.

You may wish to install an older driver. Details here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-52218.html
This one worked for me
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-7664.html (IVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 on suse 10)

You can use Anti-Grain Geometry. It is a software rendering engine but it is very very fast!
http://www.antigrain.com/
Here are some demos:
http://www.antigrain.com/demo/index.html

Whoa, never thought this thread would stay on page one for so long!

AP: That would work for TNT, but I have a video card so old none of the nvidia linux drivers have ever supported it.

Kambiz: That does indeed look very fast and powerful, however it does not look like what i'm looking for.