Guest abecc2000 Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 I know this has been posted again and again... I've been googling for hours but haven't found a working answer yet. I'm relatively new to Linux, and chose Mandriva for its claim to an easy and graphical setup as well as compatability to some of my favorite games. I've configured it just as the GDDB has told me to (-opengl to commandline, edited Config.wtf, ect.) but when I attempt to start World of Warcraft it says "World of Warcraft was unable to startup 3d acceleration". Please help! ATI Radeon Xpress 200M AMD Turion 64 1GB RAM Mandriva 2007 Powerpack+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joaopa Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Are you sure that 3d is enabled> To see this, check with the glxinfo direct rendering must be "yes" Joaopa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 As joaopa suggested, your system might not have direct rendering enabled. You can check it with: $ glxinfo |grep direct If the answer is no, then you will have to install the ATI drivers and configure direct rendering. There are posts on this board that explain how to do this, so search for them. I used to play World of Warcraft in Cedega and it worked very well with very little effort (I just had to change a config file to get the mouse targeting working properly, but I think this has since been fixed). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 You can also play WoW in Wine now, but it requires some tweaking (it saves you a few bucks, though ;) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 and make sure to have a space between the | and grep: glxinfo | grep direct otherwise it probably won't work right ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 and make sure to have a space between the | and grep:glxinfo | grep direct otherwise it probably won't work right ;) It's never made a difference for me :huh: I always pipe things up against the | - although tyme's example is more correct ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Really? I thought it would crap out, thinking that the "|" and "grep" where the same command - "|grep" - and just stop with "command not found". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Really? I thought it would crap out, thinking that the "|" and "grep" where the same command - "|grep" - and just stop with "command not found". Well try it and you'll see that it still works :P $ cat /etc/resolv.conf |grep server nameserver 192.168.0.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 i hate you, SoulSe :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abecc2000 Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Sorry for my late response, schools been a mess lately. Thanks to all who responded, that worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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