Bug 107586
Summary: | Tux Racer unusable with default driver for nVidia GeForce 4MX | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Rick Wood <rickwood> |
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | ||
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-10-21 06:02:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Rick Wood
2003-10-20 20:32:37 UTC
It's not a video driver bug nor a tuxracer bug. Tuxracer is an OpenGL 3D game and requires a 3D accelerated video driver in order to function at a useable speed. The open source "nv" driver included with XFree86 is 2D only and does not support 3D acceleration, and most likely never will support it, because Nvidia will not release the documentation to open source developers which is required in order for 3D to be supported. >It would be nice if the driver installed by the setup program supported >3D acceleration. That's only possible if Nvidia implements 3D acceleration support in the open source "nv" driver themselves and contributes it to XFree86.org for a future release, or if Nvidia allows developers to have access to their technical specifications that are required in order to write 3D support, and someone volunteers to write 3D support. Neither of those are likely to ever happen. If you are using Nvidia hardware and require 3D acceleration support, you really have no option but to download 3D capable binary only drivers directly from Nvidia, which really is not any different from what you'd have to do if you were using Windows XP. Note that Red Hat does not support Nvidia's binary proprietary drivers either, so if you experience problems while using them, please see bug #73733 and report any problems you encounter directly to Nvidia so they can fix them when they make future driver releases. Hope this helps. |