Its been a cold long year for Linux, gaming, and me. Well, maybe not cold, but my mouse is pretty frosty in regard to fraggin’ action. Having been a big fan of Quake2 and 3 I was locked and loaded when I picked up a X2 w/ GeForce 7800 PCI Express system, about a year ago. I was ready to get some hot action brewing between myself and Quake 4 and Doom 3. I loaded up faithful Gentoo Linux and my games only to discover choppy video with crackling sound or no sound and amazingly smooth video.

Being a little stubborn I declared that Windows was never going on my glowing box just so I could gib up some time. So I hacked long and searched hard, but eventually lacking in determination and will, I surrendered and let my weeping Force de Ge lounge around like an old dog surviving another long dry day. That was until XGL and compiz dazzled my existence, but thats another post.

Today I got a good surprise. When getting OpenGL, GLX, and such re-setup something software snapped into place and not only did I get working what I was shooting for, Second Life (which is really interesting), but also all of my other games then worked with acceleration and perfect sound. Not much time to frag, but at least now Cory can no longer snicker at the thought of the poor tool who can not convince his Linux box to play with him.

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