tutorials running poorly on my linux machine
September 27, 2005 05:27 PM
I've just started running Fedora Core 4 Linux and the nehe tutorials are running very poorly on my machine. However, they run great when I'm running Windows on my machine. I ran a sample from another site which used freeglut and I got this message:
Unable to create direct context rendering for window ... This may hurt performance.
My graphics card is a MSI G3Ti200-TD w/64 MB of RAM and I went to MSI's site but they don't have driver downloads for Linux. My display setting is showing the card as an NVIDIA GeForce 3 (generic) so I would think that would be good.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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September 27, 2005 06:25 PM
if you didnt get the drivers, odds are opengl is running in software, which would really slow things down.
if linux says your card is a geforce 3, then I would suggest you try nvidia's drivers, which are available on thier site.
if linux says your card is a geforce 3, then I would suggest you try nvidia's drivers, which are available on thier site.
- relpats_eht
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September 27, 2005 06:40 PM
I had the same problem with Fedora 3. The 3d acceleration for that card isn't by default set up. It has been a while since I removed Fedora from my system but here is the board where I found the answers I needed. You will need to enable direct rendering but not sure if Fedora 4 is using XFree or X.org. At the time Fedora 3 was using X.org and there were no drivers available.
Clicky
Clicky
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September 27, 2005 06:50 PM
Get the latest drivers from nvidias site. They should support Fedora Core 4 and x.org.
September 28, 2005 12:50 AM
Thanks everyone for the help. Your were all right, I went to nVidia got the latest driver and things are working good now.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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