Enabling 3D? Empty tips?

[Robby Workman]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:41:58 -0800
Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) This is very new hardware - an Intel DH55HC motherboard coupled
> with an i5-661 processor. X is up and functional but I don't know how
> to determine within XFCE whether I'm running in framer buffer mode (I
> don't think I am) or whether I'm running native, and if native whether
> I've enabled everthing I can to get the best graphics performance.
> This is not a gaming machine VGA but I do want to get the most out of
> it. What can I do to test?


On any recent distribution, the autodetected settings and such
should be optimal.  If everything seems to be working, then I'd
suggest leaving well enough alone.  :-)


> 2) A minor frustration is that every time I start I get the Tips box,
> which is OK for now, but there are no tips. Is there something I need
> to emerge to get those? (Distro is Gentoo.)


From memory, you need fortune(6), which is part of bsd-games.

-RW
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