Dave, there is Voodoo2 support ( I played Quake2/Quake3 for quite a bit
before selling the card ), but its with older versions of Glide and via the
Mesa libraries.
Riyad Kalla
Java Programmer
Game Enthusiast
-----Original Message-----
From: David Talbot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 5:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Cooker] 3DFX
There is no Voodoo 2 support in linux that I know of. I inherited one
awhile back from a friend (I helped upgrade him to a newer card). I figured
I'd toss it in my desktop and noticed all this bizzare stuff... like 2
video ports and a tiny little IDE looking cable. No need for that crap,
instructions are for sissies! So I promptly pulled out my video card, put
in the Voodoo 2 and tried to boot thinking the second video port was
obiously spare parts or something. beep beep beep flatline... hrmm...
needless to say it took me 1 hour to figure out what would have taken 10
secs if I had looked at the manual. Got it installed and working on my
windows partition. Fired up a game or two, was impressed. Booted over to
linux and searched the 4 corners of the internet looking for the drivers
only to finally come accross a few newsgroup postings about how it is
unsupported on linux.
Since I bought a Voodoo 3 and love it to death. The 2D accelleration kicks
ass in gnome/enlightenment. I can turn on the zaney effects like "drag
window transparency" or "Fly in" and there's no flicker or pauses. (And the
Voodoo 3 was put it in the computer and turn it on install for linux, and a
plug it in turn it on, find a windows cd, put in the voodoo cd, reboot
reboot)
-David Talbot
At 08:39 PM 6/1/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Notice the error. "Can't access the Banshee/Voodoo3 board", you have a
>voodoo2. Which is a 3d only board and does not have 2d capabilities like
the
>Banshee/V3. You must be running an incorrect version of glide. I thikn you
>need 2.54 or something, that supports the voodoo2.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Riyad Kalla
>Java Programmer
>Game Enthusiast
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
>duncan hall
>Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 5:50 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Cooker] 3DFX
>
>
>Using XFree86 4.0 and have Glide_V3-2.60.15-3 installed from the iso (beta
>3).
>
>thanks
>
>Dunc
>
>
>
>Riyad Kalla wrote:
>
>> Did you install the glide RPM's? What is your system setup? XFree3.x or
>4.0
>> are you using?
>>
>> Riyad Kalla
>> Java Programmer
>> Game Enthusiast
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of CSE
>> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 1:40 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [Cooker] 3DFX
>>
>> Cant seem to get my Voodoo 2 card to work!!
>>
>> This is from a fresh install of 7.1 beta 3 from the iso images.
>>
>> [root@duncan /root]# test3Dfx
>> test00:
>> Clear screen to blue
>> 2.60.00.0415
>> Resolution: 640x480
>> Press A Key To Begin Test.
>> gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board
>> gd error (glide):
>> grSstSelect: non-existent SSTSegmentation fault (core dumped)
>> [root@duncan /root]#
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Dunc
>
