Hello, michael.norman1@mail.which.net wrote:
David
I have P11 300 64mb ram, Voodooo 3 2000 AGP running SuSE 6.3. I have tried all of the above and find the following :
Running the Glutdemos and most do not run at all especially Rollercoaster and Skyfly:
Rollercoaster doesn't seem to want to run in fullscreen mode, but Skyfly does. Are you getting fullscreen mode? If not, that means that you probably don't have 'MESA_GLX_FX=fullscreen' set properly.
Running Xracer and tux_agfh, which just sit there and do nothing;
Both of these work well and in fullscreen mode for me, keep on trying.
Some questions related to your remarks above :
The SuSE database says you should install glide_V3 for the Voodoo 3 but you suggest glide_V2, do you have the same card as me ?
I (and you should) use glide_v3; the v2 reference was for the original person who had a Voodoo2 card, so I included, for their sake, just the relevant files.
How exactly do I put the export MESA stuff in .bashrc or .initrc ? I've been entering it at login in level2 or using a console to enter it when I've used KPM
Use your favorite text editor and while in your home directory type (for example) pico .xinitrc. I entered the following line just before the line that reads "export $WINDOWMANAGER": export MESA_GLX_FX=fullscreen You'll have to restart X to get it to kick in. Typing that line in in an Xterm just before starting up whatever program you use should also do the trick.
What is the libMESA option you refer to and what is thedemo setup screen to which you refer ? When should it appear ?
Sorry, it's not called libMESA (I was doing this from memory). Assuming you're using the Q3demo (the retail version might be different), as root type in ./linuxq3ademo-1.11-6.x86.gz.sh . This should eventually bring up a graphical installation screen, choose these options:Demo Base Install and 3dfx Voodoo Mesa GL Library. If you want the other stuff you can do that too.
Sorry for all the questions but I've studied all the posts on this and read as many docs as I can find and I still seem to have done something wrong. It is most frustrating.
Oh yes, I know the frustration very well, keep asking these questions until you get it working. The Voodoo3 is a nice video card and works well in Linux and there should be no reason that you can't get working for you also. There is a bug that affects some users of Q3 that requires the user to be logged in as root to get it to run properly. Hope some of this helps, let me know if you need more clarification, David Bellows -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/