Nick Hill wrote:
> I've never used a TNT2, but i'll try to help...
>
> On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 09:47:26AM +0530, satheesh wrote:
> >
> > I have TNT2 card with 32 MB I have installed XFree86 4.0 . also
> > downloaded NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-2
> > and GLX-0.9-2 from Nvidia site and installed
> >
>
> are they RPMS?
yes they are rpm files for RH6.1
> check u're XF86Config if there's a line which says :
> LoadModule "glx.so"
yes . under section module there is an entry Load "glx" and glx is
loading
correctly.
>
> > My problem is I could not play Quake 3 . when I am starting the game I
> > am getting full screen shot immediately after ,
> > X is getting hanged (i don't know X or the game !) I have to kill
> > Xserver by
> > crl-alt-backspace.
> >
>
> in the Q3 dir. , there's a libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.*. remove that. this is the
> libGL.so for 3dfx cards. Q3 checks for libGL.so in the following order:
>
> libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.*
> libGL.so
>
> so once u remove that it uses libGL.so. Please see that u've installed NVIDIA's
> libGL.so. and see that u dont have other copies of it lying around. NVIDIA's
> libGL.so is based on Mesa 3.0, which doesn't support some features, and is slower
> compared to other implementations which are based on Mesa 3.2 or 3.3. welll,
> anyway, that shud get u going.
>
> Nikhil.
>
>
I have done every thing exactly, even though it is not working. X is
still hanging.
if you want to examine the log file I can send you my Xfree86 log
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