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 ... Thanks, Richard
