for a ASUS SC-200 scsi card to hook up my scanner. I have yet to set up my cdrw but I had it working on a previous install so that should work without problems. So what is this post about? Read on..
The rest of this post will be about 3dfx/openGL/Mesa etc and sound configuration. A couple of days ago I thought I would try out Myth2 for linux. Got the cd and intstalled the whole thing. And guess what :) It worked perfectly right away. I had just put in a new soundcard (Soundblaster 128PCI) and recompiled the kernel with 1370 (or was it 1371) support. Well anyway Myth2 both plays and sounds just right. Well this little experiment of gaming got me interested in some more upgrades to my Potato installation. I would like to have 3d accelleration, Glide, OpenGL, Mesa or whatever its called :) So my first question is how I would proceed to get this working? What exactly must I download, Is there any .debs that would help me? Is this any idea at the moment? What will happen in the next XFree86 (ver. 4?) release? I have an ASUS V3400. Riva tnt with 16 M. And I am currently using the SVGA driver in XFree86_3.3.5 (from potato?). I have been looking at: http://www.linux3d.org Which directs me to nvidias pages http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386.tar.gz seems to be what i am looking for ? Is this correct ? If so is there something special to concider here ? On http://www.mesa3d.org/ these drivers are also listed as RPMS. Is this a better solution? Use Alien to make debs and install them that way ? Is this what I need ? Did I miss something ? ******************* Now just some sound stuff to end this very long mail. If anyone could just advice me what to do to get a working sound environment. Alsa ? OSS ? or just recompile kernel and skip Alsa altogehter (soundblaster 128PCI). A list of stuff to install. I don't use Gnome or KDE cd-player (It should work with scsi emulation for my IDE-cd) wav,au,mp3 mixer? what else ? Also want to try out speech synthesis system any suggestions? ********************** I am sorry about the length of this post but I hope someone did have the time to read it thru. Please mail me if more info is required. Best regards Joakim Svensson
