On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 14:14, Richard Hector wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 18:18, Richard Hector wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've searched the archives, and elsewhere, but all the useful info seems > > > to be about installing with X 4 (which isn't in potato(?)), or on > > > redhat, or occasionally on Debian by using redhat packages. > > > > > > Is there no way to get 3d from this card using standard debian packages > > > on a stable installation? > > > > > > > IIRC, you need the device3dfx-source (with the correct packages that > > depends =) and with this you build a kernel-module (correct me if i'm > > wrong). This works only full-screen, but is a little faster than the > > XFree 4.x... > > > > It's very easy to build the module with kernel-package. > > Interesting - I had read that I needed a /dev/3dfx, and found one in the > kernel source once I turned on experimental stuff - it was under DRI or > something, which worried me slightly as I'd only heard that term in > conjunction with XFree 4.x. And I haven't had any luck. So perhaps this > other source you mention is what I need. > > OTOH, I'm thinking that perhaps I should upgrade to woody, and use XFree > 4.x and kernel 2.4.x ... >
FWIK, the /dev/3dfx is not related with DRI, and if you want to delay the switch to woody (or sid =), XFree 3.6.x is enough, anyway with XFree 4.1 you have other than DRI, like XVideo extension (xv) and dga2 working (but dga1 seems broken). Andrea