i made an astonishing discovery: device-3dfx (3dfx.o) is only needed for glide applications. and then, only if you want to play the glide game as non-root. quake3 plays just dandy as non-root.
in fact, i have a question about this. i do a lot of benchmarking, and i've found that quake3 plays FASTER as non-root than as root. timedemo 1 voodoo 5/5500 ---------- xfree86 4.0.1 root: 34.6 fps dual celery 550 p: 39.0 fps these benchmark numbers are the fastest out of a trial of 3. i didn't fiddle with mtrr's or runlevels. i rebooted the system after each trial of 3 was done. the timedemos were run without a window manager, via xinitrc. to be honest, the 39fps is an improvement over the voodoo3, but not by much. i was expecting something much, much faster. is there anyone else on this list with a voodoo5 or voodoo4 and quake3? can you email me your benchmarks for timedemo1? i'd like to compare numbers. maybe the lack of speed increase is a result of the v4/v5 driver not being finished? in any event, the speed difference between root and p is very strange. does anyone have an explanation for such a thing to happen? pete
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