[ale] SuSE, Nvidia, and Quake 3

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Thu Apr 15 09:49:32 EDT 2004


Your best source of info is the XF86 log files in /var/log/.  You should see 
in the file the GLX messages.  The GeForce 4 MX440 is not a superfast card 
like the GeForce 4 Ti4200 and up.  It is a lower cost card but will do OpenGL 
acceleration.  Quake 3 ought to run fine though.  Here is my config file for X 
  inline below.  Watch the line wrap of a few lines.  I have a dual monitor 
display which is why there are two Monitor sections and the TwinView 
statements.  This was created under RH9:


BEGIN
# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"
         Identifier     "Server Layout"
         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
         InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
         FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
         Load  "dbe"
         Load  "extmod"
         Load  "fbdevhw"
#       Load  "dri"
         Load  "glx"
         Load  "record"
         Load  "freetype"
         Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
         Driver      "keyboard"
         Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier  "Mouse0"
         Driver      "mouse"
         Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
         Identifier  "DevInputMice"
         Driver      "mouse"
         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
         Identifier   "Monitor0"
         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
         ModelName    "Dell M992"
         HorizSync    30.0 - 96.0
         VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
         Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

         # no known options
         #BusID
         Identifier  "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
         Driver      "nvidia"
         VendorName  "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
         BoardName   "NVIDIA Quadro FX (generic)"
         Option "TwinView"
         # be sure to replace the HorizSync and VertRefresh with correct values
         # for your monitor!
         Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync"   "30.0-96.0"
         Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50.0-160.0"
         Option "TwinViewOrientation"      "RightOf"
         Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,1600x1200; 1280x1024,1280x1024; 
1024x768,1024x768"
         Option "ConnectedMonitor"         "crt,crt"
         Option "RenderAccel" "1"
         Option "DigitalVibrance" "100"
         Option "NoLogo" "0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
         Identifier "Screen0"
         Device     "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
         Monitor    "Monitor0"
         DefaultDepth     24
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth     16
                 Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth     24
                 Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" 
"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
         EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
         Mode         0666
EndSection

END


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