I have a Red Hat 8.0 machine with a PNY Verto GeForce4 MX 420 with 64megs of memory and a Viewsonic GS771 monitor on a Tyan S1854 Trinity 400 motherboard with a Pentium III 866Mhz CPU. I also have the latest nvidia driver (4363, I think) and the driver is set to 'nvidia' and 'Load "glx"' is set in XF86Config.

I am using BlueCurve and have the resolution set at 1152x864, since the 66Mhz 1280x1024 is a little bit flaky.

I've attached a screen shot from Start Here / System Settings / Display. The 3d Acceleration button is not selectable.

Does anybody know where that particular dialogue gets its info? And, what would I have to do to be able to select that checkbox?

I would think that glxgears should be better than this on this machine:
[bsl1@localhost bsl1]$ glxgears
5933 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1186.600 FPS
7901 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1580.200 FPS
8330 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1666.000 FPS
8375 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1675.000 FPS
8308 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1661.600 FPS

thanks...

Dang it.

I forgot the screenshot and I don't see where to add it in now.

It's not on a web page.

Hmmm... There's no place to add the image. I guess I'm thinking of justlinux.com

your getting it if you're getting those high frame rates. Sometimes when you use 3rd party drivers, the box is still grayed out, but your getting 3D acceleration, otherwise you'd be getting like 50 fps.

Well, I kinda thought I was getting the acceleration. And, I reckon now I see where that particular bluecurve checkbox is probably not associated with the 'added in' nvidia driver.

Here's a sad thing. Those glxgears numbers were from my P-III 866Mhz with 1024MB ram and Geforce4 and Red Hat 8.0, kernel 2.4.18.

Here's the glxgears from my lowly P-II 400Mhz with 360MB ram and with a geForce2 and Slackware 9.0, kernel 2.4.20:

[slacker@bsslack ~] $ glxgears
8483 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1696.600 FPS
9170 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1834.000 FPS
9169 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1833.800 FPS
9168 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1833.600 FPS

I know I probably need to futz with the kernels. It's on my to-do/to-learn list.

regards...

Edit: And, I reckon I shouldn't be looking at the GUI checkboxes anyway.