On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:44:42 -0700, Ken Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 01 February 2002 11:16 pm, you wrote:
> > Perhaps this is a used question, but have you by any chance done a search
> > on the Mandrake 8.1 CD's for the Glide_V2, Glide_V3, and Glide_V5 rpms?
> >
> > I notice that their description markets them as giving you the ability to
> > use your Voodoo card under Linux. This seems to fit your description of
> > what you want.
> >
> > And by the way....I've got a question for you that's about to burn me up.
> > Has anyone ever gotten you confused with another fellow by your name that
> > used to work with Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs back in the early 70's?
> >
> > Just curious. :)
> >
> > >On Friday 01 February 2002 21:57, Ken Thompson wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Anybody been able to make the old VooDoo 2 work in 8.1????
> > > Ive tried all the tricks that have been talked aboout since 7.1 and have
> > > never gotten it to work as other than a paper weight....
> > > Main card is intel i740 8Mb AGP....
> >
> > L. Xaphir
>
> No, or at least no one has said anything to me about inventing anything <G>.
> There are times when I wish I was the other fellow, though...
> I did install all the glide prms during install and have looked at 3DFX (?)
> web site. Still no go. I think I must be missint something simple but for
> the life of me I can't seem to figure it out.
Hi Ken,
Your post prodded me to get off my lazy backside and actually try to configure
my own Voodoo2 card, which has been sitting idle for the past few years. So far,
I have installed the Mesa and Glide_V2 packages. To test my card, I ran
/usr/bin/test3Dfx, /usr/bin/testGlide2x and /usr/bin/testGlide3x as root (it
doesn't work as a normal user). So far so good. There is also a /usr/bin/texus
utility but I don't know what to do with it.
Now, according to the Mesa documentation I should be able to make the Voodoo2
the default for GLUT (a type of OpenGL, I assume) stuff by setting the
MESA_GLX_FX environment variable:
# export MESA_GLX_FX="fullscreen"
However, this doesn't seem to work for me. I tried running the Mesa demos (type
'rpm -ql Mesa-demos |grep bin' for a list), but they all run off my lowly Matrox
Millennium II card, not the Voodoo2. The GLUT demo (/usr/X11R6/bin/glutfx) does
indeed run fullscreen, but not with the Voodoo2.
My next step is to try running a game like GLQuake to see if it runs with the
Voodoo2...
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
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