On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Steve Hodgson wrote: > Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:58:43 GMT > From: Steve Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD > > Sorry to be still hammering on about this problem - I am starting to > feel a bit dense. > > I've tried a few times now to get FreeBSD running a GUI with my Voodoo > 3500 AGP card. Thanks to some helpful advice from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I reckon that I should be able to get things > running using the tdfx X-server. Other advice is that if my card ain't > listed explicitly, it won't work. > > Longer term, a carefully-chosen card will be a great solution - at this > point though I just want to try things out and the number of cards that > will run BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD and/or Windows (this last reluctantly) > seems a little limited. As an aside one of the problems here is that > BeOS now seems happier with *old* graphics cards (one of the problems > that got me looking for the ONE OS in the first place). > > When I try to run the tdfx driver I am still unable to complete X > Windows installation successfully so I suspect that it really may be a > case of having to specify a specific card for a trouble free GUI. > > Just as an experiment I stuck on the latest Mandrake 9.0; in half an > hour and I was up and running Gnome 2.0 with no problems whatsoever > using a generic Voodoo driver. Am I being stupid in thinking that this > is the same XFree86? > > I really don't want to go down a Linux route, I've been burned too many > times there in the past. Any expertise greatly welcome at this point. > > cheers, > > Steve Hodgson >
I'm not sure what you're using to configure XFree86, but if you use the good ol' reliable xf86config(1), you'll find the card listed as 530 Voodoo3 (generic) Voodoo3 I've gotten this working with an AGP 3500 (at a friend's house) and it works like a charm on my PCI Voodoo3-2000. No 3d acceleration, but on that box I don't care, and it gives me 1280x1024 @ 24 bpp which is great. Here is my XF86Config file as it was generated by xf86config (minus the comments): ~~~~~~ /etc/XF86Config ~~~~~~~~~~~ Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension SubSection "extmod" Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection Load "type1" Load "freetype" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psm0" Option "Emulate3Buttons" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "cpd-200es" HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0 VertRefresh 50-100 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Standard VGA" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" Driver "vga" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Voodoo3 (generic)" Driver "tdfx" #VideoRam 16378 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "Voodoo3 (generic)" Monitor "cpd-200es" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Simple Layout" Screen "Screen 1" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection ~~~~~~~~~ end XF86Config ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message