[gameprogrammer] Re: Linux for game programming

[Bob Pendleton <bob@pendleton.com>]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:10, Daniel Schlyder wrote:
> Bob Pendleton:
> > There is an NVidia driver that will give you 2D support in Linux, but not 3D
> > support.
> 
> Hum. I could've sworn I got 3D acceleration after installing it. Maybe it
> depends on which card you have. (I have a GeForce 4 MX.)

My post was poorly worded, and I may be misinformed. There are 3D NVidia
drivers *for* Linux. I use them myself. OTOH, I have never seen a
distribution that included them because they are not open source. The
open source "nv" driver that I have seen included in distributions only
supports 2d. To the best of my knowledge you must download and install
the NVidia drivers your self. Not a big deal.

		Bob Pendleton

> 
> As for IDE, I'd like to second the Eclipse recommendation. A new major version
> was released recently and it looks as it's becoming a great product. I've not
> used the feature, but I think you can have it write makefiles for you (called
> managed make, or something). Be sure to get the CDT plugin for C/C++
> development.
> 
> --
> Daniel Schlyder
> http://bitblaze.com/
> 
> 
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