Re: [Sheflug] nVidia

[Ian Porter <ian.porter3 [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 10:23 am, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 10:09, M wrote:
> > > check that the card is in the AGP slot, because on the harddrive it
> > > says that it is a PCI slot ? and also with the lspci it is listed in
> > > there ? would this be the case ?
> >
> > I this is normal. Though I can't say why.
>
> I always thought that AGP was just a PCI bus, but dedicated to the
> graphics card ;) (Possibly running slightly faster than the main bus
> these days too, I guess). That would explain it, although it's not
> necessarily correct.
>
> > I'm running debian and gxl is installed in:
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/
> > libglx.so is a sym link pointing to libglx.so.1.0.4191
>
> You can use glxinfo to see what stuff is running in the X server when
> you start it. Two lines from mine:
>
> direct rendering: Yes
> server glx vendor string: SGI
>
> That means I have 3D hardware acceleration enabled. You should see
> something similar - if you get No for direct rendering, or something
> about software, it means the module hasn't loaded.
>

Cheers, I shall have a play about with the different testing programs to see 
how/what is installed.
Ian

> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>
> PS. I'm using Evolution 1.3 - it's verra verra nice :o)

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