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First of all, I've installed the latest nVidia drivers for my TNT2 -card. I know it's old card, but so is my machine Anyway, when I open the Display settings, and the Advanced tab in RH9, the "Enable 3d Hardware Accelaration" box is grayed out...why? I thought my card would be able to do 3d-accelarated graphics, because in Windows it did work somehow correctly (except those errors and crashes that are so normal everyday-problems in Windows) and did all the 3d-things well? So what exactly is this thing, and why can't I enable it? I've obeyed all the instructions given with the driver installation...
hmm...everything else is just like you wrote, (was before I wrote here) except the modules.conf line that is missing...even then the glxgears seems to run, but the box I mentioned is still grayed out..
so there is 3d-rendering enabled, altough the box tells different?
well, thanks anyway because of that glxgears you told about I now know it does work...
Not only must you edit your XF86Config file, but you have to download the driver from Nvidia! Check out their website. Their latest driver has a nice, fancy installer that works very smoothly. You still have to make those changes to XF86Config, but Nvidia's Readme explains everything perfectly fine.
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