On Sunday 19 November 2000 20:27, you wrote: > > I just finished fixing a similar problem with my voodoo3. From your error > message, it looks like the glx module isn't being loaded when X starts. > > First, you need to load the kernel module tdfx (requires the agpgart module > if you have an AGP card) > > Then make sure you have these lines > load "glx" > load "dri" > load "tdfx_dri" > load "glide_drv" > in the module section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > Also, 3D acceleration only works in 16-bit mode on a voodoo3. You can set > this in X11/XF86Config by changing the DefaultColorDepth line from 32 or 24 > to 16. > Thanx....excellent...this was good info.....isn't really documented (i think)...did browse around on deja/usenet, mandrakeuser.org, and linuxdoc.org..but didn'find this info....cool...got gears running again. btw...the banshee only accelerates 24/32 biit color ...well..atleast that's the way it was in windows...think this is h/w specific with it so it's probabely same in linux. also, i don't think it will accelerate in windowed mode...needs to be full-screen...so...i apperantly i have acceleration only on application or 2d enviroment with dri but is better than none in 2d. usually only use this banshee for apps and not games. > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, you wrote: > > > i had xfree 4.01 and apperantly had the accelartion also going on > > > initial > > > > install of mdk 7.2 (the option is apperantly only present with expert > > install). > > > > started screwing around and now i killed the thing by accident...didn't > > think i had acceleration, but i guess i did after reading the > > linux.3dfx.org site (lol) > > > > get this error when starting gears on the 3dfx banshee setup: > > > > GLUT: Fatal Error in gears: OpenGl GLX extension not supported by display: > > :0 > > > > i guess i have to initiate something to reset some variables eh??? > > > > ----- > > Created with Linux Mandrake 7.2! > > http://www.linux-mandrake.com > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- ----- Created with Linux Mandrake 7.2! http://www.linux-mandrake.com
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