Re: 3d acceleartion
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hello. Is it possible for me to enable 3d acceleration with the hardware
I have? Right now, there is absolutely no 3d acceleration. I feel that
if it was present, even though my hardware is old, I at least would be
able to play PlanetPenguin-Racer (aka TuxRacer).
I have a Pentium III, 450 MHz system, running Debian Sarge with a
2.6.8-2-386 kernel image, 384 MB ram. My VGA compatible controller is
ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c), which I believe is
also known as Mach64, with 8 MB. So, is the name "3D Rage Pro" just a
lie, to en*rage* me?
You're not going to find what you're looking for by default. Check out
the following page on the status of Mach64 support.
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIMach64?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardware
If you're savvy enough, you could build it and get 3d support.
Otherwise, you should pick up a newer video card that is already
supported. Finding a supported 3d card shouldn't be very expensive.
There's plenty of older HW that will work out of the box such as older
radeons.
Jerry Quinn
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