Hello Peter and anyone else having problems Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dave, > > this isn't the reply you wanted, but fwiw, i can't get the 3dfx driver to > work for the life of me. i've been at it for a couple of days now. i > emailed the packager, steve hasam(sp?) twice, and he hasn't replied at all. > not even a "RTFM". (i'll leave my opinion of his maintainer's status unsaid). > > i've read a number of people in the same predicament on this list. i'd say > 4 or 5 people by now, in the past 2 weeks. one person emailed me and said > his driver worked. i emailed him back and got no reply. > > i also tried using rpm2cpio on the rpms offered on 3dfx's website. they > compiled and didn't work either, but i should try that again. > > if someone here has their voodoo 3 working, a bunch of people would really > like to hear from you! >
OK, here's what I did. 1)I apt-get removed my existing device3dfx-source and also removed /usr/src/modules/ which is where the source was. 2) apt-get install device3dfx-source. 3) cd /usr/src/ 4) tar zxfv device3dfx-source 5) cd modules # This dir is created by the above command 6) cd modules/device3dfx 7) ./debian/buildpkg # This as per the docs in /usr/share/doc/device3dfx-source/README.Debian 8) This time it compiled. Before when I ran this command it wouldn't compile, apparently I needed to clean up some stuff but I didn't know how. Re-installing the whole package provided me with a clean script. 9) The module will be located in /usr/src/modules/device3dfx as 3dfx.o 10) cp 3dfx.o /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ # obviously sub 2.2.17 for wherever your modules are. 11) According to /usr/src/modules/device3dfx/debian/README.debian do the following A) mknod /dev/3dfx c 107 0 B) make the group "audio" have rw permissions for /dev/3dfx C) make sure whatever user you want to use belongs to the group "audio" 12) insmod 3dfx 13) Start fragging # hopefully, this worked for me. Hope this helps, David Bellows