no 3d acceleration with nvidia drivers

Karsten · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 33

Hi,

I have a RivaTNT videocard and installed the nvidia driver 3123, but I get no 3d acceleration.

I called already 'opengl-update nvidia' and changed the driver in XF86Config from 'nv' to 'nvidia'. Can anyone help me with that?

taskara · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 11:01 am Post subject:

hi,

did you add "glx" option to your XF86Config file ?

and check that the nvidia module is loaded by typing

Karsten · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 33

My Module Section looks like that:

taskara · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 11:26 am Post subject:

well glx won't be listed by lsmod, cause it's not a module.

looks like you have the nvidia module loaded proerly...

and if your xf86config file was wrong it would spit out an error.

how do you know 3d isn't working ? what did you try.

can you try running "glxgears" from a console ?

and maybe post your XF86Config file anyway just incase

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Karsten · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 33

I tried tuxracer and it very slow (unplayable).

glxgears works fine, it says 320 frames in 5.0 seconds = 64.000 FPS

I don't if this is software rendering or hardware rendering, but I thought if tuxracer is that slow it can't be hardware rendering.

Here my XF86Config file:

IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

sounds like your system is still using the xfree GL driver(which is not affected by your settings in XF86config -rather through symlinks in /usr/lib)

try

opengl-update nvidia

Karsten · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 33

Thanks for you answers.

I switched to the version 2960 from the nvidia drivers and now it works.

glxgears says now 1921 frames in 5.0 seconds = 385.400 FPS and tuxracer is really good playable.