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yak8998

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Registered: 2004-03-01

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3d question and nvidia question

1) i'm assuming the nvidia drivers install with X, or are they not in the pacman thingy (ABS i believe it is called?)?

2) is there a real simple program for testing 3d, such as glxgears (I was not aware this was gentoo specific)?

Thanks

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sarah31

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Registered: 2002-08-20

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Re: 3d question and nvidia question

1) i'm assuming the nvidia drivers install with X, or are they not in the pacman thingy (ABS i believe it is called?)?

if you want the commercial drivers then you will have to download and use the NVIDIA installer binary. there used to be a package for the NVIDIA drivers but the commercial binary installer does a far better job and is far more feature rich than pacman and a nvidia package could be.

2) is there a real simple program for testing 3d, such as glxgears (I was not aware this was gentoo specific)?

glxgears is NOT gentoo specific. in fact it is far older than gentoo.

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i3839

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Registered: 2004-02-04

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Re: 3d question and nvidia question

glxinfo is much more useful.