Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
Hi, Curtis,
I have official nvidia driver installed from the beginning.
glxinfo | grep render direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: GeForce2 MX/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
Its seems that CC Generals simply won run in my case. Cedega glitch or whatever else.
On Friday 01 July 2005 00:21, Curtis Rey wrote:
Ok. First - you never want to run Mesa GLX if you want hardware
accel -
you'll only get software accel and your fps will not be enough to
play
any games, or at least not anything that entails true 3D rendering. From the output from "glxinfo" it appears as alls well. Now,
Secondly.
You need to be aware that running Transgamings WineX/Cedega
complicates
matters. Since you seem a bit confused on the matter - the "nvidia" driver/kernel mod "taints" the kernel. In otherwords - it is not
under
the GPL/LGPL, etc and therefore the kernel complains about
it. Ignore
this. The thing that is essential if you want to run games. native
or
via the wine api's, you MUST have hardware accel - the only way your going to get it is to use the "nvidia" dirvers - Mesa can't handle
it.
Get your nvidia drivers and config setup and then look to Cedega to
get
it running and/or fine tune it. The quick way to check to see if
the
right drivers are installed it to run "glxinfo | grep render" and
you'll
get only the lines that are needed - it either reads direct
rendering:
No/Mesa GLX (indirect) or direct rendering: Yes; server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation; server glx version string: 1.3. You
want
yes to direct rendering and only the nvidia driver will give you
this.
Opps, Color me "idiot of the day"! Replace every instance of "drr" with "glx". A previous poster was correct - nVidia has it's own built in DRI . The only two things you need, besides a succesfully installed km module and glx drivers, is for the driver entry in the x config file needs to be "nvidia" (but then you know this) and the option "glx" to be loaded (not dri - I haven't used that since Voodoo3 days). It's been a long day - sorry for any confusion (other than my own) I've created < bashes forehead on monitor repeatidly. mutering "stupid stupid stupid">. :/ Again - sorry. Curtis.