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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD
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 As fars as a card that works widely, nVidia provides binary drivers with 3d accelleration for Win32, Linux and BSD for their current cards. My Geforce2 AGP works great in Linux and BSD. Just a thought. That Voodoo3 should work fine, though no acdeleration tihs side of Mesa (software). 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
Re[2]: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alex wrote: To: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Steve Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[2]: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD Dear/Beste John, Wednesday, January 1, 2003, 11:27:08 PM, you wrote: Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 Why did you switch the last modes? -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex Whoops! Forgot about that. I have that box propped up on an amplifier in my living room and I've been sitting wy back from it on the sofa with the keyboard and cordless mouse. 1152x768 is easier to read at that distance, so I modified the config file. Nice catch. # 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
Re[2]: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD
Dear/Beste John, Wednesday, January 1, 2003, 11:27:08 PM, you wrote: Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 Why did you switch the last modes? -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD
I had been having some problem trying to get FreeBSD installed onto a free partition because I was unsure whether my Voodoo 3500 AGP card was supported by X Windows. Thanks to some help received I now know that I need to use the tdfx driver. However when I select this as part of the graphical or shell- based W Windows setup during install it still fails. I wonder if anyone can advise whether I am missing some quirk of using the card. With regard to the graphical setup it may be useful to note that all the other devices are shown correctly while the graphics card is only shown as an outline box. Is it time to try to pick up a cheat ATi card? Cheers, Steve Hodgson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD
- Original Message - From: Steve Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 3:44 AM Subject: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD I had been having some problem trying to get FreeBSD installed onto a free partition because I was unsure whether my Voodoo 3500 AGP card was supported by X Windows. Thanks to some help received I now know that I need to use the tdfx driver. However when I select this as part of the graphical or shell- based W Windows setup during install it still fails. I wonder if anyone can advise whether I am missing some quirk of using the card. With regard to the graphical setup it may be useful to note that all the other devices are shown correctly while the graphics card is only shown as an outline box. Is it time to try to pick up a cheat ATi card? Cheers, Steve Hodgson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message I just looked at the XFree video driver list and they do not have Voodoo cards on it. Maybe it goes by some other name. But Voodoo is just not there. Which means there is no driver for it in X windows. When I first got into the X window system, I did not understand how important it was to have an exact card from the list. I tried and tried with what I had, and got no where. Finally, I printed off their list, went to the computer store with it, and got something exactly, and the key word is exactly, like on the list. Came back, put it in, set the variables in X, and voila! Again, it is not FreeBSD. It is X windows which is card specific. Joe Gwozdecki Houston, Texas To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
