Switching from mesa to video card driver

kinghunter4 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 86

In several games on Linux, I've had an extremely slow
FPS. When I looked in the readme files of one of them, namely
Cube, I saw that this problem could be due to Linux using
the mesa video drivers instead of the specific card drivers. Has
anyone run into this problem, and how can it be solved?

Thanks in advance,
kinghunter4

morodoch · Guru Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 523 Location: England

Which card do you have? If you have an NVIDIA card, it's worth installing their drivers, by

kinghunter4 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 86

I have ATI, and the driver said it installed and all, but
I'm still getting the horrible FPS.

morodoch · Guru Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 523 Location: England

I don't have an ATI card, but a quick google turned up this:

http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html

and this

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml

kinghunter4 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Posts: 86

Yes, I've done this whole thing. Also, games in windowed mode run
fine, but tuxracer and Cube in windowed mode do not.

morodoch · Guru Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 523 Location: England

If I'm trying to debug X, I normally look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, or run dmesg to see more info - do either of these commands help? I'm clutching at straws here, really.
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