the RIVA driver you got there is the right one to use. i use it on my
TNT(1) 16MB and it flies in quake2/3. the demo of myth2 doesnt have 3d
accel(i dont think?) so i cant try it out.
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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Joakim Svensson wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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