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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:32:41AM +0100, clifford wrote:
I'm running SuSE 7.2 using the latest GeForce 2 (Creative Titanium) with = the latest Nvidia drivers (downloaded from Nvidia's site).
Another thing. When i try to run /usr/bin/gears i get the message : GLUT: Fatal Error in gears: visual with necessary capabilities not = found.
If anybody has any ideas, i'd be most gratefull.
There are a couple of things that look suspicious to me. First, I have a geforce2go, and my driver section uses "nvidia" instead of "nv". I think the nv driver is a generic nvidia driver for older TNT type cards. Driver "nv" <-- change to nvidia? Second, if you can't run gears, something is not right with your OpenGL setup which could be related to the above. You should have a link in /usr/lib that looks likes this (although I think I am one generation behind on the latest nvidia release): libGL.so -> GL/libGL.so.1.0.2880.nv_glx* After I upgraded my nvidia drivers a few generations back, I no longer had to set the video driver on the command line to start quake3. I just run "quake3". With older versions of the driver, my start line looked like this: quake3 +set vid_ref glx +set gl_driver libGL.so +set sndchannels 1 This is a tangent, but I recently was able to play Quake3 Team Arena for the first time thanks to Linux. I bought it almost 2 years ago but it always crashed Windows when I tried to run it. Last year, I stopped using Windows completely (except on rare occassions when work forces me to) and the game just sat on my shelf. After loading SuSE 8.0 and getting Q3 running smoothly, I gave Team Arena a try in Linux and it worked great! So, Linux enabled me to play a Windows game that I otherwise would never have been able to play. Ironic. Hats off the id software people who always come through with Linux ports. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Linux soldat -- 8.0 SuSE panzer division Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net