On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, teunis wrote:
>
> > Hey, looking at accelerating glide under 3dfx/banshee and 3+
> >
> > Should I:
> > a: get it to recognise and initialize from FB?
> > b: get it to recognise and initialize from GGI
> >
> > Is there KGI for 3dfx? I haven't checked...
>
> Their was a KGIcon driver for it. It now has been ported to the 2.3.X
> kernels.
Oh, that explains it then :)
It does -not- share nice with tdfx/DRI...
> > I'm angling towards (a) at the moment as glide -requires- a 3dfx card of
> > appropriate type and should only run under either X or console...
> >
> > I would -love- suggestions :)
>
> Well you could run libGGI on top of fbdev with the 3Dfx driver. It maps
> the mmio region but I don't think libGGI takes advantage of this. The
> glide library doesn't use the fbdev layer. It does its own thing.
That's the problem really...
I want to initialize glide from fbdev then. Got it - thanks :)
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis
