My first post, so take it easy guys I've been using slack for all of my server duties (web/ftp/mysql/etc) and WON'T consider using another distro for my production servers.

However, I would like to move away from my home pc being Winblows. I do alot of gameing (ATI 9700 PRO Video Card and Lots-o-Counter-Strike) and have heard some good and bad things about slacks ability to make a good 3-D desktop boxusing X. (Probably due to lack of configuration knowledge).

Has anyone had any experience with my video card listed above and possibly doing some 3-D gameing on slackware?? If so, please provide some steps and links on how to get it setup.

Thanks in Advance

hasbeen:

I ran a quick google.com/linux on your card and found at least 10 pages of hits (although I'm sure not all will be relevant). Drilling down the details, here's a couple of more specific pages for starters:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroup...3-07/0186.html

http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules...=5318&forum=57

I hope these help. Good luck.

I have a 9800 Pro, and with ATi having finally released drivers that work with XOrg 6.8.1, although a little trying to get them working, and being overly sensitive to a kernel recompile, I've still been able to get 3D games going.

In terms of 3D gaming, I've only been trying out the 'native' games so far.[list=1][*]Doom 3 - Works, but not sure about the performance. Some playing around there needed.[*]Unreal Tournament - No problems[*]Unreal Tournament 2003 - No problems[/list=1]
I haven't yet tried any Windows only 3D games through Wine. Although I suspect OpenGL games will probably come out better than the Direct3D ones.

To get the drivers working, the following is just a quick summary of what you need to do (the specific details are explained in half a dozen other ATi driver threads)

(These instructions are for 10.0 or above running Xorg with the 2.6.10 kernel. Where this differs with an older kernel, or 9.1 with XFree86 I'll try to point out.)[list=1][*]Follow the instructions on ATi's website to set up POSIX shared memory in fstab[*]Download the drivers[*]rpm2tgz[*]/sbin/installpkg the new tgz package[*](If running the 2.6.10 kernel you will need to patch the drivers - http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33798874)[*]Follow ATi's instructions for manual installation to build and test the fglrx driver module.[*]Run /usr/X11R6/bin/fglrxconfig. This creates an XF86Config-4 file in your /etc/X11/ directory.[*]In /etc/X11, either rename XF86Config-4 to xorg.conf/XF86Config, or copy the relevant details from XF86Config-4 to xorg.conf/XFree86 (all the bits about the fglrx driver basically, and then edit your config so that it uses fglrx instead of the 'radeon' driver with XOrg/XFree86)[*]Restart X and then run /usr/X11R6/bin/fglrxinfo to make sure you are now running the ATi drivers and *not* Mesa3D.[*]Enjoy[/list=1]