I am looking for a way to get hardware accelerated 3d performance out of my video card. For reasons detailed below, this seems to come down to the need to start X in a lower resolution and depth than I customarily use. I am looking for a good way to do that, or the encouraging news that some other approach is possible.
I know how to edit the config file to reduce the startup resolution; the problem with this solution is that it is extremely awkward given my need to start up in two different resolutions--I can't live permanently in one or the other. Changing my screen resolution on the fly (ctl-alt-numeric +) is not effective, because XFree86 apparently decides whether to accelerate when it starts. One possibility would be to have XFree86 start in different modes on different virtual terminals. Does anyone know if this is possible and how to do it? This might be a good enough solution, though it still has the drawback that I need to cycle through each X virtual terminal to get a system shutdown. I'm running a debian testing system, xfree86-common at version 4.2.1-3. Matrox graphics card, AMD chip, 2.4.19 kernel. Thanks in advance. If you're curious why I care about this now, read on. My daughter got hooked on Mario go-cart in a waiting room, and I had to tear her, sobbing, away to get home. As I did so I boldly told her that Linux would have something similar. It actually does in tuxkart, but it's completely unplayable without hardware acceleration. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]