[ale] SuSE, Nvidia, and Quake 3

[Preston Boyington]

Dow Hurst wrote:
: Oops!  There aren't two Monitor sections!  The SecondMonitor
: option is enabled
: by the Twinview option under the Device section.  Sorry!
: 
: That gets you a unified desktop across both monitors that is hardware
: accelerated.  I like this since I can have games or modelling
: programs running in windows while other stuff is displayed at the
: same time. 
: I think once
: someone gets used to a readable desktop of 3200x2400 that it
: is hard to go
: back to just one monitor!
: Dow
: 
: 
: Dow Hurst wrote:
:: 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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thanks, i will forward it to my home address and see what the differences are.