Re: [Bug-gnubg] 3d board not working

[Joseph Heled]

On 9/9/05, Jon Kinsey <address@hidden> wrote:
> Joseph Heled wrote:
> > The 3D board is not working for me.
> > First, the doubling cube is blank.
> 
> This and the resignation flag are drawn using ftgl.  When I get a minute
> I'll try the latest version.
> 
> > Second, the speed is very poor (3.4
> > frames ps) and it tell me the quickdraw make no difference.
> 
> I seem to remember that the quickdraw option will not report a faster
> speed in the test - you should just notice it is quicker (moving
> chequers around for example).
> 
> The slow speed is almost definitely a slow s/w opengl driver, i.e. you
> aren't getting any hardware acceleration.
> 
> Jon
> 

On the same computer but under redhat all was well, so I assume I got
some kind of hardware assitence. Under the more modern debian it is
not. What can I do? where can I go the "enable" stuff???

Thanks, Joseph