Thanks for your info... however, last night... in my frustration... i purged my entire X installation, and found that i did actually have a couple old GL libraries from my previous compilation (i thought i had removed all of them, but apparently not).
anyway, i'm happy to say i have an entirely deb based system (except for the 2.4 kernel i compiled) with working xf4 and dri on a voodoo3 (no need for alien etc.) kudos to Branden et al! On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:57:33PM +0500, James Leigh wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > i have recently installed the woody xf4 debs my system with a voodoo3 > > card and things are working fine, except for opengl acceleration. > > > > my kernel: 2.4.0-test10 w/ tdfx compiled into the kernel (and agppart > > enabled) > > vid card: voodoo3 2000 agp > > mobo: asus a7v > > I was hoping that some one else would respond with a better answer then > this, but since no one has, I will let you know what I have done to get > my voodoo3 xf4 and kernel-2.4.0 to work. At the linux.3dfx.com site > they have three binary rpms for OpenGL API , tdfx-dri, tdfx-drm, and > glide-v3-dri. The tdfx-drm you have included in your kernel so you will > not need this, but you have to install the other two. > Install alien to convert the two rpm packages into debs. The > glide-v3-dri installed on my system without any trouble, the tdfx-dri > directly conflics with the xserver-xfree86. This is why it is not a > great solutions, but it works. Install the tdfx-dri over the > xserver-xfree86 deb. Use dpkg --force-overwrite -i tdfx-dri.deb. You > will have to overwite the xserver-xfree86 every time up upgrade it. > > I use voodoo3 xf4 and linux-2.4.0 w/ voodoo3. This method works for me; > I hope it will help. > > http://linux.3dfx.com/open_source/download/voodoo3_banshee_dri.htm > > > james
