You have to patch the driver. The problem is with the kernel and how it
changed some stuff about the modules, etc. I have the patched file, here
(which I hope still works for 2.4 unless they b0rked it again). I'll send
you some stuff directly off the list if I can find it.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Michael Jinks wrote:
> Since upgrading to Red Hat 7 and kernel 2.4, my OpenGL games have
> stopped working. I don't know whether to blame XFree86, the kernel,
> both, something else...
>
> The docs I've been able to find from 3Dfx are looking out of date, with
> no real info on XFree 4, DRI (other than calling them "developer only"
> topics), or Linux 2.4. And with 3Dfx being swallowed up, I'm wondering
> if I may be out of luck.
>
> One of the games I'm having trouble with is Myth2; Loki Games recommend
> what looks like a beta development version of the Glide libraries for
> use with RH7 (Glide3-20000823-1.i386.rpm and the corresponding devel
> package), and last I checked I couldn't find a newer package, but
> something is still missing. Myth runs, but doesn't display anything
> past the splash screen successfully, I just get a black display with a
> mouse pointer.
>
> My kernel is compiled with support for the Voodoo 3, lsmod lists:
>
> Module Size Used by
> tdfx 56400 1
> agpgart 15648 1
> <snip>
>
> ...don't know if that matters or not.
>
> I don't know if this matters either, but I do not have the /dev/3dfx
> file that used to exist; the Loki docs on RH7 haven't mentioned it, and
> the source I have complains when I try to build it against a 2.4 kernel
> tree (rpm --rebuild Device3Dfx-2.3-5.src.rpm). So for now I'm assuming
> that this is something I don't need anyhow.
>
> Version info:
>
> Red Hat 7, patched
> kernel 2.4.0 (release)
> XFree86-4.0.1-1
> tdfx_dri-4.0.1-1
>
>
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