Can some1 give this newbie a step by step to settign up 3d acceleration on Redhat 9 for an Nvidia Geforce 2 MX. I installed Wolfenstein Enemy Territory but it won't start up, all i see is a screen flahs and then othing happens. I think its the 3d acceleration. If not help me out on whatever the problem is. THanks so much.

why the dual post?

do you currently have DRI enabled?
(can check with 'glxinfo | grep -i direct')

I'm surprised redhat doesn't support the gf2 right out the box though (if DRI is not on).

jpbarto

in a xterm window, what do you get when you type in........glxinfo and also glxgears??

glxinfo:

name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 1 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 dc 1 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2a 24 dc 1 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None


glxgears:


Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
622 frames in 5.0 seconds = 124.400 FPS
705 frames in 5.0 seconds = 141.000 FPS
634 frames in 5.0 seconds = 126.800 FPS
635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 127.000 FPS
634 frames in 5.0 seconds = 126.800 FPS
635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 127.000 FPS
634 frames in 5.0 seconds = 126.800 FPS
635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 127.000 FPS
634 frames in 5.0 seconds = 126.800 FPS
635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 127.000 FPS
634 frames in 5.0 seconds = 126.800 FPS
635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 127.000 FPS
705 frames in 5.0 seconds = 141.000 FPS
634 frames in 5.0 seconds = 126.800 FPS
635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 127.000 FPS

go to nvidias website and get the linux drivers....they have detaield instructions with the package/on the site.