I installed some mesa opengl package stuff, but I haven't gotten around to seeing if now runs my game in OpenGL mode yet

I tried one linux game commercial game I downloaded

an arkanoid clone (uses SDl and OpenGL)

http://www.wegroup.org/games/arkanoi...pace-ball.html

but it runs like a dead dog still, and doesn't respond to mouse clicks with the onscreen cursor

I think I will give things a try with VMWare player and a Ubuntu virtual machine instead...

cheers,
Paul