[Techtalk] 3d acceleration in X

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 11:40, Conor Daly wrote:
> 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...

Not quite. They ship sources for their interfaces (which are in turn
linked to their binary only stuff), so you can compile the kernel
module(s?) against your own private kernel -- in case they don't provide
prebuilt modules already.

Maybe you have to enable DRI in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (or XF86Config in
case of 8.0) first.

Note that Nvidia's binary only modules and GL libraries aren't supported
(other than by Nvidia that is), etc. pp.

Nils
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