[Techtalk] 3d acceleration in X

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:51:07PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Telsa Gwynne thought:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:12:35AM -0700 or thereabouts, 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. 
> 
> I presume that's two separate boxes and cards? :) 
> 
> I am told Voodoo 3 should work. Nvidia: sounds like you'd need the 
> nvidia-supplied binaries? I don't have 'em. I do know that there's 
> an 'nv' driver from XFree86 which does 2-D stuff but the 3-D stuff 
> is only available by downloading binaries from the nvidia ftp site.
> Wherever that is. 

It appears from the download page that the sources are available for both
the kernal module and for the GLX driver...

Conor
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