Quake3World

Posted: **Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:38 pm**

Hello all!

i need to get some lines in my xorg.conf to get some 3d gui stuff happenin, i need to add the following lines:
Under “Device”
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

and under “Modules”
Load "dbe""
Load "extmod""

Now that gives me somthing like this,

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# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nv"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "Modules"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     16
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
EndSection

that is all fine and good, but when i reboot, X cannot start then gets me to re-do the config to get back into X and continue on..

What gives?
i have my Nvidia drivers installed and working properly ( as far as i know anyway ) i have been playing quake for the past 45 mins.

as for the linux distro i am using Fedora 6.

Any help is welcome.

Posted: **Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:44 pm**

Cmon! someone has had to edit this file before!

Posted: **Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:29 pm**

Say what?
Does Fedora 6 come with free porn?

Posted: **Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:03 pm**

misantropia will be along shortly.

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:38 am**

Quite so.

You need to set Driver to "nvidia" instead of "nv". The latter is the stock open-source driver, which unfortunately doesn't sport 3D acceleration. You'll also want to make sure "glx" is loaded in your Module section.

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:16 am**

I knew that one.

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:33 am**

Are you installing Xgl? Let me know how it goes, I'm thinking of trying it out.

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:17 am**

Scourge wrote:I knew that one.

liez!

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:36 am**

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Scourge wrote:I knew that one.
liez!

Nuh-uh. Had to do that very thing to install nvidia drivers when I had nix installed.

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:36 am**

^misantropia^ wrote:Quite so.

You need to set Driver to "nvidia" instead of "nv". The latter is the stock open-source driver, which unfortunately doesn't sport 3D acceleration. You'll also want to make sure "glx" is loaded in your Module section.

Hummm,

i will give that a go tommorow, i woulda thaught the Nvidia driver install would have done that on its own... meh, ya live and you learn.

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:30 pm**

Ahh! good news! it finally stuck! i guess when X redid the config the first time ti put the driver back to nv, i dident pay close enough attention.

anyway, she is working, but i cant get the "desktop effects" to get started :/ it starts up, then shits out and says they cant be started...

Gah,

obsidian wrote:Are you installing Xgl? Let me know how it goes, I'm thinking of trying it out.

Uhh.... uhhh... what now? i dont think i am actually, but i am unsure.

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:36 pm**

misantropia saves the day yet again.

Posted: **Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:07 pm**

Jugg, you attention whore

Posted: **Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:45 am**

amideh, you whore.

Posted: **Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:48 am**

AmIdYfReAk wrote:i need to get some lines in my xorg.conf to get some 3d gui stuff happenin...

Well, when you mentioned 3D GUI, I thought it might be XGL, which is some sort of software that adds 3d effects to your Linux gui. I've been trying to do something similar.

Something like this:
[lvlshot]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... 4-2006.png[/lvlshot]

And check out this video of it in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-6oEcAZ80

So, what exactly are you doing?

Posted: **Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:03 am**

Please don't get me envy, but does that have any practical use?
Or just another self-satisfaction with much more abuse of electroricity? :icon34:

Posted: **Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:56 am**

Obsidian, yes, that is what i am talking about.. Fogive my ignorence

it comes with Fedora 6, so i figured i would give her a boot

and a13n, no, this is somthing that i am trying to learn.. .i have been trying out what ever i can in linux to try and get more of an understanding of linux in general...

its free, i have spare box's, i have ( some )time, why not learn something new? right?

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:06 am**

anyone have any idea why it wouldent work?

unless my videocard cant do it, and that could be possible..

Fx 5200 btw

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:24 am**

It should work on a FX5200. I just got it working here on Ubuntu Edgy 64. AMD Athlon 64 3500+, nVidia 7600GT.

I followed these instructions:
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php ... dgy/nVIDIA

What tutorial/reference are you following? Where are you having problems?

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:23 pm**

i tripped on this when i was surfing,

http://lunapark6.com/?p=2454

i see what they are doing in that guide, but wouldent most of that be done considering its installed with the OS?

That is the part that i dont understand, i guess it would make more sence to me if it wasent installed and i had to go from scratch.

Posted: **Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:35 am**

Thanks for that Obsidian, following most of that guide, i must say the GUI is running much beter, but the effects cannot start.. they get further then before though! hahah

i will keep plugin at it, if you have any more ideas gimmie a shout

Posted: **Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:42 am**

Well apparently, you're not supposed to run Beryl with Fedora Core, since it's supposed to have built in AIGLX support and I think Compriz installed as well. No idea why it's not working though.

It sounds like it's just a matter of enabling it.

Posted: **Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:57 pm**

heh, i do enable it, then it says that it cannot be enabled...

Posted: **Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:33 pm**

Try this:
http://scribez.wordpress.com/2006/10/29 ... idia-card/

What I had to do to get it working on Ubuntu is install the latest beta drivers from nVidia (9.xxx). I think it's the same problem with Fedora Core.

I can't run Q4 with these drivers though, seriously breaks polygons. Q3 runs fine.

Posted: **Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:38 pm**

Hummm, i will give that a shot when i get home

thanks mang

Quake3World

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