Thanks, I'll try it out!
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Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 2:25 AM
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Subject: Re: Voodoo3 3000 16MB
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Mike Barnes wrote:
> I just installed a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 16MB on my P200 (yep good ol'
PCI)
> I have a dual boot Windoze98 and Caldera Open Linux 2.2
>
> I have the voodoo installed no problem on Win98, but when I boot up
into
> Linux it says it's going into run level 3, sending process term signal
I don't know Caldera at all, but Slackware and RedHat both have runlevel
3 as normal multiuser console: they don't even try to start X. You can
run X at runlevel 3, but you have to do it yourself. Either you have
made a typo for runlevel 5, or Caldera is very wierd indeed.
> And then just hangs there.
> (I initially installed Linux with my old card, a matrox mystique)
>
> To get out of it I can just hit ctrl+alt+del and it shuts down
properly, but
> other than that Linux says hell with it I quit lol
>
> Is there a way to boot into Linux with the standard X Server, and
bypass the
> matrox settings?
essentially, no. There is no standard X server that will run without
an XF86Config file that has settings that are valid for it. Maybe SVGA,
if you will be cotent with 320x200. You still have to link in the right
X server. Here is an evasive maneuver:
boot, and when you see LILO, hit a shift key to get its attention. It
should respond
boot:
You can hit tab or ? to see what it knows how to boot. Probably linux,
but the name may be changed to protect the guilty.
I will call it linux, for simplicity. On my box it is 38threads,
37threads, threads, maybe, dose, and rescue.
linux <runlevel>
should start <runlevel>
Slackware RedHat Caldera
multiuser, no network 2 2 ?
multiuser, network 3 3 ?
multiuser, X 4 5 ?
spare (same as 3) 5 4 ?
linux 1, linux single, or linux S
_should_ start a single user console login.
Failing that,
linux init=/bin/sh
should get you a shell. If that doesn't work, you could try:
linux init=[/usr][/local]/bin/[sh|ash|bash|csh|tksh|pdksh]
<From any shell, you can run xf86config. Tell it the truth about hour
video hardware, and it will make you a workable XF86Config.
I wouldn't try to boot into X until I had run a healthy-looking
X --probeonly and run X successfully from a console with startx or
xinit, but you are the system administrator.
>
> Also I got the drivers from 3dfx and they have fairly decent
instructions on
> the process of updating Glide, installing the drivers etc. But all the
> installations are done with RPM's.
>
> Would there be any difference in installing the RPM's in Caldera,
versus Red
> Hat?
>
> ie. it says to do:
> "rpm -Uvh Glide_V3-2.60-8.i386.rpm"
> would there be any differences?
>
> Also it states a directory in one of the commands...
> "rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/Device3Dfx-2.3-1.i386.rpm"
>
> Well if I'm not running Redhat I'm assuming that directory won't
exist...
> But also would I be right in assuming since it's calling for it's own
file
> in that directory that it may create it?
No. That is the INPUT file to rpm. try ls /usr/src and see what you
find. You might very well find redhat. If you find caldera, see if it
has RPMS.
>
> Sorry for sounding like a moron, I'm fairly competent when it comes to
> computers in general, but am still learning Linux so be gentle!
>
> Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
> Oh also if there's any known issues with this driver let me know, if
> anything I can just put in my old card *shudder* and disable it in
windows
> and just keep using it for Linux.
>
> Thank you much,
>
> Mike Barnes
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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