Re: [gentoo-dev] 3D-3dfx-gaming

Re: [gentoo-dev] 3D-3dfx-gaming

[enrico zschemisch]

hi,

>Guys any clue on how to get voodoo3 working like it should be ?! tuxracer
is at 1fps !
ok, i have no Voodoo3, but I have Banshee ;-(
You need to install the mesalibs and DRI dri.sourceforge.net, i think the
mesalibs can be found at freshmeat, but I´m not sure. I had a small text
about 3dfx cards in a linux box, but I don´t know where it is. If you can´t
get it running, contact me, I´ll search again.


PS: Linux Box: ~39FPS quake3
      Win Box: ~41FPS quake3 :)

Re: [gentoo-dev] 3D-3dfx-gaming

[Djamil ESSAISSI]

Thnx for replying! u 2  drobbins@gentoo.org
I'll check it out as soon as i can ..

I'm not bitching but just saying so ppl see it later if they have the same question:
 The FAQ/HOWTOS [at least the one i found ] are so freaking old ...
 3dfx.com is down i meant does not exist anymore -- correct me if wrong.
 i'm having a hard time to find Glide as it is i think only on CVS @ freshmeat or sourceforge ..

I insist on getting this thing working more for a "sensible" cause than just playing 'cause i got a win98 box to do that just "almost fine" ...

It's because i wanna get a linux platform to perform as it should be on the gaming side 'cause the resources are here : the Kernel the best. the drivers : almost there !

This will help get more and more ppl to use Linux --- FYI in Russia the new president ordered "in a military" meaning to use only linux and especially not M$ !

I really really wish i had the time to participate --- writing drivers -- tuning distributions ... but now dont really have the time .

As a purist [i mean freak] i admire gentoo way too much since i'm using it already in production!

thnx

asta

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:03:55 +0200
"enrico zschemisch" <dirtbag@gmx.li> wrote:

:-)hi,
:-)
:-)>Guys any clue on how to get voodoo3 working like it should be ?!
:-)tuxracer
:-)is at 1fps !
:-)ok, i have no Voodoo3, but I have Banshee ;-(
:-)You need to install the mesalibs and DRI dri.sourceforge.net, i think
:-)the
:-)mesalibs can be found at freshmeat, but I´m not sure. I had a small
:-)text
:-)about 3dfx cards in a linux box, but I don´t know where it is. If you
:-)can´t
:-)get it running, contact me, I´ll search again.
:-)
:-)
:-)PS: Linux Box: ~39FPS quake3
:-)      Win Box: ~41FPS quake3 :)
:-)
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[gentoo-dev] AA and KDE in gentoo - still not solved - anyone uses AA here?

[Viktor Lakics]

Dear All,

DOes anyone uses AA outhere in kde?

I tried this trick (putting QT_XFT=1 to ~/.xinitrc) to make all my KDE to be
AA-ed, without success. I did not even have .xinitrc in ~, ( /root - right now
I set up everything as root and worry about permissions for users later), so I
created it, but it did not help at all. (I have initdefault 4 set in inittab,
and it seems that it works without .xinitrc)

Then I tried to put QT_XFT=1 to the startkde script in various places -
nothing happened. I even tried to shutdown kdm to console mode, and log in
again to a normal konsole, set QT_XFT=1, export QT_XFT, and then start kdm -
no dice.

But once I am already in KDE, fire up a konsole window and set QT_XFT=1, AA
works, as long as I start the apps from THAT VERY SAME konsole. The rest of
the KDE is still not AA-ed though...(The checkbox in kcontrol -look&feel -
style - use AA is switched on, of course)

To make it even more confusing, there is a single program (kppp) which is
AA-ed (after setting the GUI AA option on) even if I do not start it from a
konsole where I previously set QT_XFT=1...

I am really confused now... Why on earth the GUI control for AA only works on
kppp, but not for the rest?! How can I let KDE know that I want AA
everywhere?







Thread <thread@threadbox.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I only have AA fonts when I set QT_XFT=1 in an xterm, and start an
application
> > from that xterm. How can I set QT_XFT before starting KDE to have AA
> > everywhere in KDE? What config file do I have to edit?
> > 
> I can answer the first question. Edit ~/.xinitrc, and make it say something
like:
> 
> QT_XFT=1
> startkde
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Thread
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Re: [gentoo-dev] AA and KDE in gentoo - still not solved - anyone uses AA here?

[Dan Armak]

This sounds really strange. I never had AA problems. This may not be very 
relevant, but what X driver module are you using?

However this shouldn't be relevant at all. Starting from version 2.3.0, qt is 
compiled to use AA by default! Maybe for some reason when you compiled qt 
this broke. Try recompiling qt yourself (not from the ebuild) and make sure 
AA is on (the output of configure will tell you), then point QTDIR to your 
new qt temporarily and start kde.

Other than that, this sounds like possible font trouble. Make sure you have 
TTF fonts installed (for example install the app-text/freefonts and 
app-text/sharefonts gentoo packages). Then in kcontrol, go to the fonts 
dialog and make sure you have these ttf fonts selected (e.g. Verdana). Then 
restart KDE.

As for env. var. settings trouble, make sure your startkde script is modified 
to use --login, then edit /etc/env.d/09qt to include QT_XFT=1.


This is all I can think of. HTH.


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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer
Matan, Israel

[gentoo-dev] 3D-3dfx-gaming

[Djamil ESSAISSI]

Guys any clue on how to get voodoo3 working like it should be ?! tuxracer is at 1fps !

I know i should be working ...

Djamil

Re: [gentoo-dev] 3D-3dfx-gaming

[Daniel Robbins]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:55:33PM +0000, Djamil ESSAISSI wrote:
> Guys any clue on how to get voodoo3 working like it should be ?! tuxracer is at 1fps !
> 
> I know i should be working ...

Well, quite a few of us use accelerated 3D with nvidia cards, but I
don't know of anyone actively using accelerated 3dfx video.  You should
be able to find some kind of FAQ somewhere.  The quick answer is that
you will need to enable "DRI" (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) in the
kernel and use tha appropriate Xfree86 driver.  I'd check on 3dfx's site
for some kind of Linux driver FAQ.

Best Regards,

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