None at all? It should say something along the lines of 'use switch2...' to tell you which script you should run to get 3d acceleration. Could you post the output? Anders On Saturday 30 June 2001 18:35, michael norman wrote:

Anders

Yes just did that. It reurns no errors.

Mike

On Saturday 30 June 2001 17:30, Anders Johansson wrote:

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Have you run 3Ddiag? If so, what's the output from it?

Regards Anders

On Saturday 30 June 2001 18:25, michael norman wrote:

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I am using 7.2 on a pentium 111 with 256meg ram and a Voodoo 3 2000. Out of ths boax and with agpart complied into the kernel I am getting a return from gears of around 86 fps. This seem rather slow, is there soimething I can do to improve it ?

thanks

Mike

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:27:51AM -0600, Linux - User wrote:

is there any way to know where is the swap that the system is been using ?

swapon -s

Also I have finished installing 7.2 at a RAID, but when I do a "df -h" I have a strage partition:

"shmfs" ?? that a hell is that ? je je

This is the shared memory filesystem. "The shm filesystem cleans up the shared memory implementation, and helps in the provision of Posix shared memory segments." Don't ask me any more than that, because that's all I know. Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\

On Saturday 30 June 2001 16:30, Anders Johansson wrote:

Have you run 3Ddiag? If so, what's the output from it?

Regards Anders

On Saturday 30 June 2001 18:25, michael norman wrote:

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I am using 7.2 on a pentium 111 with 256meg ram and a Voodoo 3 2000. Out of ths boax and with agpart complied into the kernel I am getting a return from gears of around 86 fps. This seem rather slow, is there soimething I can do to improve it ?

I get much the same with a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP; 408 frames in 5.009 seconds = 81.453 FPS 425 frames in 5.009 seconds = 84.847 FPS 425 frames in 5.009 seconds = 84.847 FPS 425 frames in 5.008 seconds = 84.864 FPS 425 frames in 5.009 seconds = 84.847 FPS 425 frames in 5.009 seconds = 84.847 FPS 3Ddiag reports ---- Using /usr/bin/3dinfo ************************************************************ Verifying 3D configuration based on XFree86 4 for 3D board "3Dfx Interactive, Inc. 3Dfx Voodoo3 (121a@0005)": Tests for package "xf86_glx": package ... done. package files ... done. rc.config (SCRIPT_3D=switch2xf86_glx) ... done. Symbolic Links ... done. Tests for package "glidedri": package ... done. package files ... done. rc.config (SCRIPT_3D=switch2xf86_glx) ... done. Symbolic Links ... done. Test for correct XFree86 version ... done. Tests for XFree86 configuration: Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done. Driver ... done. Color Depth ... done. Extensions ... done. Options ... done. ---- Everything seems to be working OK In addition, glxinfo gives; ---- .display: :0.0 screen:0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 client glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Voodoo3 20001101 OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4 ---- If something's up, it's might be a duff link to libGL.so or that gears is still trying to use software Mesa to render stuff. I'm still using 4.0.3 after a bad experience with 4.1.0 and 7.1. One thing I did notice in the XFree86 4.1.0 'new features' section (see http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/RELNOTES2.html#2) was a new update called 'glxgears' - I'm *guessing* that this *might* give you hardware-accelerated frame rates. The final possibility is that something's funny about gears that causes it to report incorrect values for Voodoo 3 cards. However, I can report that q3arena runs absolutely fine on my box at 1024x768. The Voodoo 3 isn't the newest card around, yet for the little 3D stuff I do, the unusually low gears reading doesn't appear to have any real consequence. cheers, Gideon.