3D Acceleration... TuxRacer

[skiflyer]

I've been under the impression that my installation is all good and happy, well everything except the sound card and batter monitoring, but I'm waiting until I upgrade to the 2.6 kernel for those...

Anyway, one thing which has never worked on a linux install for me (many distributions, two boxes) is Tuxracer... it's always slow as dirt, the mouse is so clunky as it moves across the screen that I can't dream of actually making a selection.

Now I couldn't care less about this game... but, it makes me question my video card setup, is this indicative of my 3D acceleration failing?

I'm running a Toshiba S300x-S30x laptop with an NVIDIA GeForce2 and using the Nvidia drivers... Debian Unstable... 2.4.22 kernel, goofs under both KDE and Gnome, haven't tried other WM's with this yet.

Thanks for any feedback.

-Rob

 

[wmg]

Hello Rob,

Yes - I had the same problem until I downloaded and installed the Nvidia driver from Nvidia themselves (as opposed to the normal 'nv' driver that comes with XF86).

It seemed to enable 3d acceleration at installation time but it sounds like you're already using those nvidia drivers. A quick check in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file will let you know if you are or not. 'nv' is the standard one and 'nvidia' is the actual Nvidia one.

HTH
wmg

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other human invention in history...with the possible exception of handguns and tequila."

-Mitch Ratcliffe

 

[skiflyer]

I'm using the nvidia drivers supplied by debian... not during the install but rather by doing an
apt-get install nvidia-glx-src
and
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src

and then following the supplied instructions to compile them... when I get some free time i'll see if the ones on their web site are different (at work now, this is my home machine)

-Rob

 

[rrsub]

aren't there 2 lines that have to be edited in the XF86CONFIG file?

Something like change nv to nvidia and remove dri

 

[skiflyer]

Actually there're a few things depending on exactly how your file get's setup... I found this the best overall site for help.

http://students.washington.edu/tartuffe/linux-sat3000.html

 

[princessangry]

Well I know that my GeForce4MX440 (128MBDDR-RAM 8X AGP) is probably not supported since it is really new. it runs but without 3D accell.

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