[solved]Enemy Territory Error

tecta · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 20

Hi, I just emerge'd enemy-territory and while running 'et' i get this error:
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You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!
Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1
If this is intentional, add
"+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1"
to the command line when starting the game.
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How do I enable hardware acceleration? Also I tried what it said in the message and the game force me to ctrl+alt+backspace

Any help is greatly appreciated

teidon · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject:

You'll need to emerge drivers for your video card. So either ati-drivers or nvidia-glx + nvidia-kernel. Then you need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. In the video card's device section change the driver in line 'Driver "something"' to either fglrx or nvidia, depending which one you have. Then restart X server and with some luck it should work. You can test it by running "glxinfo | grep direct" and if the output is "Direct rendering: Yes" it's working.
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oKtosiTe · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject:

I'm not suprised software rendering is slow.
It depends; do you have an nvidia or ati card?
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml
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tecta · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 20

I fixed it, i had to do equery set nvidia opengl

oKtosiTe · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:50 am Post subject:

How about changing the title of your original post to include [solved]?
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