[Techtalk] 3d acceleration in X

[claudia]

Il gio, 2002-10-03 alle 18:12, Carla Schroder ha scritto:
> Look, all I want to do is play Tux racer, OK? Is that too much to ask? Can 
> anyone point me to a doc that tells how to enable 3d acceleration in Xfree? 
> I've been all over xfree.org, and I think DRI is what I want, but hey, who 
> knows? I just want to play Tux Racer. I'm running Red Hat 7.2 and 8.0. Voodoo 
> 3 card and Nvidia TNT2. 
> 
> Other distros enable it out of the box, but no, not Red Hat. So there is a 
> way!
> 
> RH 8.0 has a decent graphical xfree interface, but the 'enable 3d' box is 
> grayed out. So much for GUIs. I had Mandrake on the same box, and Mandrake 
> might be funky at a lot of things, but by gosh it runs Tux Racer.
> 
> thanks much!
> 
> Carla


One person I know had the same problem and he solved it putting the
Nvidia drivers (he probably downloaded them from the Nvidia site)in
RedHat.
If you need more information I can ask him.
Let me know.
Claudia
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