On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 11:33 PM, Stacy J Dunkle wrote:
> On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 06:31 PM, Matthew Cowgill wrote:
>> No you are not getting any 3D accelleration from the Voodoo card when
>> in X. There are no drivers available to make it work either. I've
>> heard a few people talking about "they knew someone who hacked some
>> drivers to make it work" but like so many rumors no one has ever been
>> able to produce them when asked. ::chuckles:: its a Voodoo urban myth
>>
>
> OK, but what about 2D acceleration with the Voodoo3 in X?
>
> Stace
>
To tell you the truth I was amazed that you managed to boot into X at
all with a Voodoo card installed. Before I made the jump to X was when
I did all my research on the Voodoo cards and X and everything I read
was from people who couldn't get their computers to boot into X with a
Voodoo 5 installed. My Voodoo 3 went when I sold my 6500 so all I had
to test was the Voodoo 5 and after all the people saying they couldn't
boot I didn't try.
Here is a snippet from one of the articles I read on it.
Graphics Drivers: OS X ships with ixMicro, NVIDIA and ATI
drivers for all Apple
models on which the OS runs. However, there are no 3dfx
drivers and, with 3dfx
now out of business, you're not likely to ever see any. A 3dfx
card will provide a
basic, non-accelerated display, but when it comes to
accelerated drivers, Voodoo
owners are out of luck.
Full article is here
<http://thetechnozone.com/macbuyersguide/software/system/MacOSX-
final.htm>
So you'd be better off to pick up even an old Rage 128 if you can't
find a Radeon
Matt
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