Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I've searched the archives, and elsewhere, but all the useful info seems > > >to be about installing with X 4 (which isn't in potato(?)), or on > >redhat, or occasionally on Debian by using redhat packages. > > > >Is there no way to get 3d from this card using standard debian packages > > >on a stable installation? > > > >Any help appreciated, > > This is a long shot. > If 3D is what is used to render/show for instance the 3D pipes, "flowers", > etc. in screensavers, then you can get support for that by installing the > mesag3 package that comes with Potato. > > I don't game or use graphics, but my Voodoo3 under XFree86 3.6.6 will let > me use the 3D screensavers when mesag3 is installed.
Is that the mesag3 package or the mesag3-glide package? I understood I should use the glide version for a 3Dfx card, in order to get the 3D acceleration. Many thanks, Richard
