Yeah, I had this problem myself until a helpful soul pointed me to: http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/linuxppc-tdfx.php3 Unfortunately, the patch I got from here only works on the sources listed. At least, I haven't figured out how to patch any other kernel...
HTH Russell PS I can also send you my XF86Config-4 file, separately, if anyone thinks it might be useful... On Saturday 07 July 2001 17:07, Anthony Lau wrote: > Hello, > > I have a StarMax 4000 with a 604e. I am trying to XFree to work with > a PCI Voodoo3. > I am running Debian 2.2r3 testing with a 2.2.19 kernel patched with a > Ani Joshi's tdfx patch. > > I have good experience with Debian on X86, but am new to PPC. > > I grabbed the source of XFree v.4.1 from an www.xfree.org mirror > site. It compiled fine, installed fine and seemed to be setupped > fine. However startx fails and the log file gives a very cryptic > error message: > > (==) TDFX(0): RGB weight 888 > (==) TDFX(0): Default visual is TrueColor > (--) TDFX(0): Chipset: "3dfx Voodoo3" > (--) TDFX(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x90000000 > (--) TDFX(0): MMIO registers at addr 0x82000000 > (--) TDFX(0): PIO registers at addr 0x400 > got here > count, here 1 > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > > My guess is that I have not properly setup the XF86Config file for PPC. > > I have attached my XF86Config-4 and the log file. > > Thanks, > -- > Anthony Lau
