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Post your graphics card. You need to have 3d acceleration to get glxgears to work and for that you generally need a driver from the manufacturer. Your error message indicates that you don't have any 3d acceleration.
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Originally posted by kilgoretrout Post your graphics card. You need to have 3d acceleration to get glxgears to work and for that you generally need a driver from the manufacturer. Your error message indicates that you don't have any 3d acceleration.
thank you so much for quick reply....
i am using the MX440 Geforce 4 Nvidia...64MegRam 4xAPG
i did run the NVIDIA install script at console root for the install....
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thank you so much Steve.....
i guess i am too tired to work....i put the # infront from the load GLX instead of DRI...
i think i should get more sleep....but i am enjoying getting this system up and running in gui and not just text....
Originally posted by utanja thank you so much Steve.....
i guess i am too tired to work....i put the # infront from the load GLX instead of DRI...
i think i should get more sleep....but i am enjoying getting this system up and running in gui and not just text....
Your welcome never good to do too many things when tired I manged to fry my whole system last year doing that and had to reinstall.
To get any kind of 3d performance from that card you'll have to install the nvidia drivers. Here's a link that describes how to do that the debian way:
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Originally posted by kilgoretrout To get any kind of 3d performance from that card you'll have to install the nvidia drivers. Here's a link that describes how to do that the debian way:
Not really, it's the same driver. It should just simplify some of the configuration. If you got the driver to compile OK and the nvidia driver is loading, then you should be fine. If your getting to a gui and you edited your X config file for the nvidia driver then it's loading and the module is installed. What fps are you getting in glx gears?
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Originally posted by kilgoretrout Not really, it's the same driver. It should just simplify some of the configuration. If you got the driver to compile OK and the nvidia driver is loading, then you should be fine. If your getting to a gui and you edited your X config file for the nvidia driver then it's loading and the module is installed. What fps are you getting in glx gears?
thankyou so much for your answer.....i am getting about 2300FPS....i dont know if that is good or not..
Originally posted by utanja thankyou so much for your answer.....i am getting about 2300FPS....i dont know if that is good or not..
We have similar cards (I have the TV out on mine) and I used to get ~2000 before I changed to a larger monitor and started running at a high resolution (2048x1536) so that seems pretty good to me.
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