sure, why not.
I have a voodoo5. I use the drivers from http://linux.3dfx.com. They
have a very nice step by step on that website with the files that you
need right there. Here are my major steps.
1. download files: in my case those are:
tdfx_dri-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm
tdfx_drm-1.0-3.src.rpm
Glide_V5-3.10-2.i386.rpm
2. remove all rpms related to Glide or 3dfx
3. exit X (I boot to init3 so I just log out of windowmaker and I am at
a command prompt.) and log in as root.
4. cd /etc/X11 and change name of existing XF86Config-4 file to
XF86Config-4.old
5. rpm -Uvh Glide_V5-3.10-2.i386.rpm
6. rpm -Uvh tdfx_dri-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm
7. rpm --rebuild tdfx_drm-1.0-3.src.rpm
Sometimes I have to --force and/or --nodeps one of the three packages.
8. cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686 rpm -Uvh tdfx_drm-1.0-3.i686.rpm
9. cd /etc/X11 and change all settings in XF86Config.dri.ex to reflect
the entries in XF86Config-4.old (specifically monitor refresh rates,
mouse settings and font paths) then cp XF86Config.dri.ex XF86Config-4
10. startx (at which point everything works theoretically)
Doing this breaks some of the neat things that mandrake does and some of
the applications that are installed. Fine with me as long as I can play
Quake3! Hope this helps Paul. Feel free to ask more questions if there
was something you were interested in that I missed.
Abe
Paul R wrote:
>
> If it's not a whole how-to (i.e. just a few lines), may I ask what steps
> you took. I was asking purely for my own (&the list's) edification, so
> if it's too much trouble, it's ok.
>
> -Paul R
>
> abe wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately you do not automagically get hardware acceleration w x
> > 4.0.1 and mandrake 7.2. I had to use the same procedures to make it
> > work that I used with 7.0 and 7.1.
> >
> > I've got an A7V (Via KT13) and linux works great on it.
> >
> > Abe
> >
> >
> > "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
> >
> >> Hmm, okay...I'm a little confused now. I thought that with Xfree 4.01 and
> >> Mandrake v7.2, if your video card is supported, then you get automagically
> >> installed hardware acceleration? Is that not right?
> >>
> >> Another question; I'm thinking about upgrading soon. Any issues with Via 133
> >> and AMD 751 chipsets? Tyan motherboards? Thanks, all! ;-)
> >>
> >> --
> >>
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> >> \/
> >
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