Video Problems?

anima_a_ignifer · 10-23-2002, 01:28 PM

I am not even sure if this is a problem. When I start a graphical game in x, such as,(galactica??), I think that is it. Anyway, when I start it up, the system goes way down hill. Is there any way that you can use software graphics acceleration(like Direct X on Win), for linux. BTW, my distro is RH7.3. I have the intel 810 chipset w/ 4MB? of memory. Is there something I can do to make it perform better, short of getting a video card?

acid_kewpie · 10-23-2002, 01:33 PM

is this game using OpenGL? if so make sure you are using hardware processing, not software library equivalents

Mara · 10-23-2002, 01:34 PM

Open your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and look if you have
Load "glx"
line. If you don't, add it and test it. It may be that your X won't start. In such case remove the line and it should be OK (but without acceleration).

Chameleon · 11-08-2002, 10:33 PM

Also have a look at http://dri.sf.net/
And here is a sample i810 config http://dri.sourceforge.net/res/XF86Config.i810