I've got a Matrox Millenium II AGP card. The 7.3 setup seemed to recognize it and the normal video display is fine, but I've noticed that when I try to run various games that (presumably?) use 3D functionality - things like the flight simulator and the Tron racing game - the display is unusably slow (it seems to build a frame every 10s or so!). Is my card just too old to cope with new fancy graphics, or have I perhaps set something up wrong? I've tried playing with SAX2, ticking boxes in the "3D Settings" at random (in ignorance), but with no improvement. If it helps, one 3D game is fine. I think it is called Descent iirc. Perhaps this uses different display technology? Any help appreciated. Cheers, -nick
On October 25, 2001 04:46 am, you wrote:
I've got a Matrox Millenium II AGP card. The 7.3 setup seemed to recognize it and the normal video display is fine, but I've noticed that when I try to run various games that (presumably?) use 3D functionality - things like the flight simulator and the Tron racing game - the display is unusably slow (it seems to build a frame every 10s or so!).
Is my card just too old to cope with new fancy graphics, or have I perhaps set something up wrong? I've tried playing with SAX2, ticking boxes in the "3D Settings" at random (in ignorance), but with no improvement.
If it helps, one 3D game is fine. I think it is called Descent iirc. Perhaps this uses different display technology?
You simply don't have drm enabled. If you type 'lsmod' does 'mga' come up? If not, type 'insmod mga.o' and restart X. What's the device section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config look like? Look for the line 'Section "Device"' What's the 'DRI' section look like? Oh yeah, send the output of lspci as well. -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com
James Oakley wrote:
You simply don't have drm enabled.
If you type 'lsmod' does 'mga' come up? If not, type 'insmod mga.o' and restart X.
I think it was there, but I'll check again. I know that the driver name in SaX2 was mga (or is that different?).
What's the device section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config look like? Look for the line 'Section "Device"' What's the 'DRI' section look like?
Oh yeah, send the output of lspci as well.
OK, I'll find out tonight. Thanks. Meanwhile, I found a support article on the SuSE site that talks about using the "mesa" package for 3D support, with instructions on how to load glx.so as a module. I'll see whether that is loaded too. See http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/glx_64.html Cheers, -nick
I am using an ATI card, but this may help anyway. I found that
3D hardware acceleration only worked for 16bpp. Early versions of
Quake3 would force a shift to 16bbp from my usual 24bpp. Descent 3
would not force the shift and I was using Mesa (OpenGL in software).
By getting out of X Windows and restarting in 16bpp, the hardware
acceleration worked. Versions of Quake3 < 1.30 were stable (didn't
crash X) when used as the X client, i.e., no window manager or desktop
environment. With Quake3 1.30, running it as the X client doesn't
work. I haven't tried running it from 24bpp X session, yet.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Nick Battle
I've got a Matrox Millenium II AGP card. The 7.3 setup seemed to recognize it and the normal video display is fine, but I've noticed that when I try to run various games that (presumably?) use 3D functionality - things like the flight simulator and the Tron racing game - the display is unusably slow (it seems to build a frame every 10s or so!).
Is my card just too old to cope with new fancy graphics, or have I perhaps set something up wrong? I've tried playing with SAX2, ticking boxes in the "3D Settings" at random (in ignorance), but with no improvement.
If it helps, one 3D game is fine. I think it is called Descent iirc. Perhaps this uses different display technology?
Any help appreciated.
-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck
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James Oakley
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Jeffrey Taylor
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Nick Battle