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Hi all,
I am fairly new to Arch. I got Xorg all set up and I got most of the stuff I generally used installed. However, when I try to play a 3D game called Minetest, my display screws up and I have to kill XOrg and run startx again.
I have a Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 and am using the free software drivers (xf86-video-nouveau)
Thanks
EDIT: I also have Mesa installed, as it says to do install it for 3D support.
Last edited by codecat (2013-02-23 20:14:00)
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Please post the output of glxinfo
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Please post the output of glxinfo
The command doesn't exist.
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ewaller@odin:~[127] 1002 %pacman -Qo glxinfo
/usr/bin/glxinfo is owned by mesa-demos 8.0.1-2
ewaller@odin:~ 1003 %
It has been so long since I have installed, I forgot they split those. Go ahead and install it demos. Glxinfo will provide a fountain of good information.
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Here's my glxinfo output: https://pastee.org/rhgsw
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Well, the good news is that it says you have direct rendering. A fair number of your mode are tagged with the caveat 'Slow'; that bothers me.
Just for fun, see if glxgears runs. Do not use it as a benchmark, but how many frames per second does it report?
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Hmm, it seems to run fine.
Glxgears is reporting this:
2416 frames in 5.0 seconds = 483.158 FPS
Maybe it's just Minetest that is the problem... or irrlicht to the exact.
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Yes, I am starting to think that the problem is not Mesa or Direct Rendering related. Unfortunately, that places it outside my ability to help. I am neither a gamer or Nvidia user.
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That could be it. It isn't the best coded game out there.
Thanks for the help.
Last edited by codecat (2013-02-23 21:01:20)
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OpenGL version string: 1.5
This is fairly ancient subset of OpenGL, most likely this game requires OpenGL functions that were not implemented in your drivers yet. You could try running it in software mode.
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I tried running Minecraft and got some the same issues again. Do you think using the propietary drivers would help?
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They should, but i don't know if GFFX are still supported.
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On the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia#Installing it says
For GeForce 5 FX series cards [NV30-NV38], install nvidia-173xx package, available in the AUR.
So should I try installing that?
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