[Techtalk] 3d acceleration in X

[mara]

Carla Schroder wrote:
> 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
> 

Hello,
To enable acceleration for Nvidia card you need Nvidia drivers (from 
nvidia.com). There's also a readme provided with installation instructions.

Voodoo should have acceleration support "out of the box". If not, look 
into /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and see if there's a line
Load "glx"
If not, add it and start X again.

Good luck
Mara