On Squeak for Windows, we have a menu item (in the window menu) "VM preferences" and a submenu "Display and Sound" with three items. It is important to check "Use OpenGL (instead of D3D)" Hardware acceleration needs OpenGL; it will not work when you use D3D.
There is nothing like that Linux. I generally run it in framebuffer mode despite the fact that the framebuffer driver constrains me to 640x480x8....=(
Or with the TWM for X'doze. -- hardly any menus at all....
The OpenGL libraries, or at least _SOME_ 3D libraries are working and they work extremely well for "tuxracer". -- to within the limits of Linux's inexhaustable suckeyness....
The card isn't very impressive but then there isn't much that's fully supported by the flaming kernel.
I am supprised that the work on this 3D stuff stopped years ago, I thought it was an active area of research.