I can't speak for Debian, but I've been able to get full acceleration (Quake 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Heretic II, etc.) on my Mandrake 8.1 desktop machine running XFree86 4.1.0. It has a GeForce 2 MX card (specifically, an Abit Siluro) and an Athlon (not XP) CPU.
I followed these instructions and it all just worked: http://www.evil3d.net/articles.shtml Good luck, - Jared On Sunday 03 February 2002 12:34 pm, you wrote: > Hello all; > > I'm trying to get accelerated graphics working properly on my system. > I have an AMD Athlon XP cpu, AMD 761 AGP, and an NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX video > card. > > A couple of months ago, I installed Debian stable, then installed XFree86 > version 4.?.? from Debian Woody. I then install the nvidia accelerated > graphics kernel driver and GLX library. Everything worked great, notably a > 3D game called Andromeda9 played very well and always reported 100 > frames/sec (+/- 2 or so). I played around with bios AGP settings; there > were some small improvements and everything functioned as expected. > > Another game called Heretic II kept crashing the computer. I assume the > cause of the crashes is some bug in Athlon memory paging conflicting with > the AGP memory access (or whatever -- seems to be some babbling on the net > about this). Eventually the ext2 file system became corrupt and I could no > longer boot the computer. > > So I reinstalled Debian, this time using a Woody reiserfs install cd. Once > again, I have installed the nvidia glx library and kernel module. The > accelerated graphics function but at a much reduced rate: Andromeda9 is now > 30-50 frames/second (the number is much lower and it varies much more than > it used to). Also, I think the games use much more cpu resource than they > used to (I can't quantify this because I don't remember exactly what the > cpu usage was previously). Further, the mouse behaves funny - it doesn't > move smoothly and sometime jumps around on its own. I'm sure the > accelerated graphics is enabled because if I disable it things REALLY slow > down. > > I don't know what I did differently on my second install. I have tried a > number of things to fix the problem: both nvidia and linux agpgart for agp > access. I have upgraded to XFree86 4.2.0. I have removed ethernet drivers > from the kernel (thought maybe one of them conflicted). I tried not loading > any XFree86 extensions. I removed all traces of libGL* from my system, and > replaced with the NVIDIA ones. All to no avail. > > So, my questions are: > - any idea what else I could try? > - I've notice the nvidia XFree86 extensions report that they are compiled > for X version 4.0.2, whereas I have version 4.1.something, then 4.2.0. > Could this be a problem? - The man page for the XFree86 nv driver says that > it is fully accelerated. When I try the driver, I don't think any > acceleration is going on. For sure the 3D games don't get accelerated. I > have the agpgart module loaded when I start up X. Do I have to do anything > else? Does the nv driver really use full acceleration? - Is there another > place to post this message? > > Thanks for your help. I attached some pci info below, just in case it's of > any use. Let me know if I should post more information. > > Robert > > cat /proc/pci > PCI devices found: > Bus 0, device 0, function 0: > Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [Irongate] System > Controller (rev 19). Master Capable. Latency=32. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xdbffffff]. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf002000 [0xdf002fff]. > I/O at 0xd000 [0xd003]. > Bus 0, device 1, function 0: > PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [Irongate] AGP Bridge > (rev 0). Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=14. > Bus 0, device 7, function 0: > ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev > 64). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: > IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). > Master Capable. Latency=32. > I/O at 0xd400 [0xd40f]. > Bus 0, device 7, function 2: > USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 26). > IRQ 9. > Master Capable. Latency=32. > I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f]. > Bus 0, device 7, function 3: > USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2) (rev 26). > IRQ 9. > Master Capable. Latency=32. > I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc1f]. > Bus 0, device 7, function 4: > SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 64). > IRQ 11. > Bus 0, device 9, function 0: > Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16). > IRQ 10. > Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. > I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf000000 [0xdf0000ff]. > Bus 0, device 13, function 0: > Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 8). > IRQ 11. > Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. > I/O at 0xe400 [0xe41f]. > Bus 0, device 13, function 1: > Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 8). > Master Capable. Latency=32. > I/O at 0xe800 [0xe807]. > Bus 0, device 15, function 0: > Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Ethernet Controller (rev > 67). IRQ 11. > Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8. > I/O at 0xec00 [0xecff]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf001000 [0xdf0010ff]. > Bus 1, device 5, function 0: > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX) (rev > 178). IRQ 5. > Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc000000 [0xdcffffff]. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd7ffffff]. > > > cat /proc/nv/card0 > ----- Driver Info ----- > NVRM Version: NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0.2314 Fri Nov 30 19:33:20 > PST 2001 Compiled with: gcc version 2.95.4 (Debian prerelease) > ------ Card Info ------ > Model: GeForce2 MX/MX 400 > IRQ: 5 > Video BIOS: 03.11.01.30 > ------ AGP Info ------- > AGP status: Enabled > AGP Driver: AGPGART > Bridge: Generic AMD > SBA: Supported [disabled] > FW: Supported [enabled] > Rates: 4x 2x 1x [4x] > Registers: 0x0f000217:0x00000114 > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
