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"Could you please run this command as root, so I can know exactly which Unichrome chip your board has?

lspcidrake -v | grep VGA"


Card:S3 UniChrome-based cards with 3D support: VIA Technologies, Inc.|VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1106 device:3122 subv:1019 subd:b320)

By the way, when I talk about "3d acceleration", I'm talking simple stuff like running PlanetPenguin Racer both fast and smooth (which it does on Deb based distros, but seems to fail on my recent forays into RPM based distros). Now, serious 3d stuff, like GoogleEarth, never works correctly (I don't think it works correctly with OpenGL, but prefers DirectX).

I just want the diversion of PPRacer, or TuxKart, once in a while, and the knowledge that my hardware is being fully utilized by my installed distro.

"also, if you have been successful in getting 3D acceleration on other distributions, could you let me know how? Thanks!"

I would gladly tell you that, if I ever successfully did it manually myself. But I haven't. The hd auto-dection and auto-configuration of Debian, Ubuntu, SimplyMepis, Kanotix, sidux, Kubuntu, and Linux Mint have all done it for me.

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Yep, I understand the issue. However, I'm not sure why it ain't working ;) . As you can actually see in the output of your command:

"Card:S3 UniChrome-based cards with 3D support"

that means it's in the group of cards I've got configured to use the 'openchrome' driver, with 3D acceleration enabled. So I'm not sure why the 3D isn't working.

Can you mail me (since they'll be quite big) your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files, please? awilliamson AT mandriva DOT com. thanks a bunch.

Edited 2007-10-11 00:29

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