the RIVA driver you got there is the right one to use. i use it on my TNT(1) 16MB and it flies in quake2/3. the demo of myth2 doesnt have 3d accel(i dont think?) so i cant try it out.
----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Joakim Svensson wrote: > > for a ASUS SC-200 scsi card to hook up my > scanner. I have yet to set up my cdrw but I had it working > on a previous install so that should work without problems. > So what is this post about? Read on.. > > The rest of this post will be about 3dfx/openGL/Mesa etc > and sound configuration. > > A couple of days ago I thought I would try out Myth2 for > linux. Got the cd and intstalled the whole thing. And > guess what :) It worked perfectly right away. I had just > put in a new soundcard (Soundblaster 128PCI) and recompiled > the kernel with 1370 (or was it 1371) support. Well anyway > Myth2 both plays and sounds just right. > > Well this little experiment of gaming got me interested in > some more upgrades to my Potato installation. > > I would like to have 3d accelleration, Glide, OpenGL, Mesa > or whatever its called :) > So my first question is how I would proceed to get this > working? > > What exactly must I download, Is there any .debs that would > help me? Is this any idea at the moment? What will happen in > the next XFree86 (ver. 4?) release? > > I have an ASUS V3400. Riva tnt with 16 M. And I am currently > using the SVGA driver in XFree86_3.3.5 (from potato?). > > > I have been looking at: > > http://www.linux3d.org > Which directs me to nvidias pages > http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html > > RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386.tar.gz seems to be what i am looking > for ? Is this correct ? If so is there something special > to concider here ? > On http://www.mesa3d.org/ these drivers are also listed as RPMS. > Is this a better solution? Use Alien to make debs and install > them that way ? > > > > Is this what I need ? Did I miss something ? > > ******************* > > Now just some sound stuff to end this very long mail. > > If anyone could just advice me what to do to get a working > sound environment. > > Alsa ? OSS ? > > or just recompile kernel and skip Alsa altogehter (soundblaster 128PCI). > > A list of stuff to install. I don't use Gnome or KDE > > cd-player (It should work with scsi emulation for my IDE-cd) > wav,au,mp3 > mixer? > what else ? > Also want to try out speech synthesis system any suggestions? > > ********************** > > I am sorry about the length of this post but I hope someone did have > the time to read it thru. Please mail me if more info is required. > > > Best regards > Joakim Svensson > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
