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[Lazy8s]

I followed all the instructions in the readme as well as all the wonderful ones given to me by LordMorgul but I'm not sure my video card installed

I rebooted and everything came up, so I went to check my

display settings, it says
Video card type: VESA driver (Generic)
Memory size: 128 megabytes
Driver: nvidia

and it does not let me check the box to enable hardware 3D acceleration
does that mean it did install my Ti4200 or not? or part way or what?

[Andy Mecham]

Did you edit your XF86Config(-4) file per the README? It looks like you're still loading the vesa driver, not the nvidia driver.

--andy

[Lazy8s]

I thought so...I removed the whole line with dri in it as well s changed vesa to nvidia....that's all right?

[Andy Mecham]

Can you run 'glxinfo' and see what that spits out?

--andy

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by Lazy8s
Driver: nvidia Naah, you're using the right driver. You probably left the Identifier as "VESA driver (Generic)", though, right? That sounds like an Identifier string.

It doesn't matter if that's it -- as long as the Driver is right, the Identifier doesn't affect anything.

As to why the button is grayed out, it's because the wonderful GUI program doesn't understand the drivers (still). So it either doesn't know how to enable 3D on your card, or thinks the drivers it has are broken. The second is most likely the case -- the "nv" and/or "vesa" drivers that ship with most distros are 2D-only.

So you should be OK. Run tuxracer, though, to look at performance, and run glxinfo (look for "direct rendering: Yes") to check whether 3D is enabled at all. If it is, tuxracer should run well, and if tuxracer is running well, 3D is enabled.

[Lazy8s]

well, it says direct rendering: yes, but for some reason I don't think I have Tux racer...could that be? It' not with the other games....how lame would that be? on Red Hat 8.0 none-the-less

[bwkaz]

Check the RH CDs then. It might be that you didn't initially install it.

:)