3D in Mandrake 9 slooooooow

[Kooldino]

Hi. I recently installed Mandrake 9 on my 2nd PC. It's a 1.2Ghz duron, 256M of RAM, and a hercules g2mx. Post-install, when I would run Tux Racer (a 3d game), it would run at about half a FPS. Even on the menu screen.

So natuarally I updated the drivers from Nvidia's site. I had to get some kernel mode driver, and it told me to get some GLX (?)thing as well. I installed both, and rebooted. The Xserver wouldn't come up. So I uninstalled the GLX rpm, rebooted, and everything was peachy.

Loaded tuxracer again...same thing.

The only thing I'm thinking is that maybe the drivers are too new or something?

[bsdgeek]

When you installed both, did you remember to uncomment the GLX line in the XF86Config?

Also, did you make sure DRI Was commented out?

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by bsdgeek
When you installed both, did you remember to uncomment the GLX line in the XF86Config?

Sure didn't. What am I supposed to do?

Also, did you make sure DRI Was commented out?

I'm new to this...dunno what DRI is...care to elaborate?

[albatorsk]

First of all, you'll need that "GLX thing" for your gfxcard to be able to talk to the X-server with hardware accelerated OpenGL.

Second, edit your XF86Config and look for:

Load "glx"

and make sure it's active (uncommented). You can usually find XF86Config in /etc or /etc/X11.

Could you also please post the output of the X-server when you try to start it? It would be interesting to see where it fails.

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by albatorsk
First of all, you'll need that "GLX thing" for your gfxcard to be able to talk to the X-server with hardware accelerated OpenGL.

Second, edit your XF86Config and look for:

Load "glx"

and make sure it's active (uncommented). You can usually find XF86Config in /etc or /etc/X11.

Could you also please post the output of the X-server when you try to start it? It would be interesting to see where it fails.

Well, like I said, at the moment it no longer fails, since I uninstalled the GLX rpm. BUT I think there may have been GLX drivers there before that I was overwriting, and when I took out nvidia's, it reverted back to some other GLX drivers (or so it said). I'll try the above and get back to you...

[Marshmallowman]

check nvidia's site. they have instructions for doing the correct changes, one includes change NV to nividia or something similar in the XF86Config-4 file. If you don't do it, it simply won't work(been their done that)