3dfx and some sound questions
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 ?
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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?
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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
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