Hi Brandon Thanks again - I fully understand you have limited resources, I guess both time and hardware. I also would not suggest to leave it out of the build.
A couple of comments though: The 3dfx card is the same as the PC card of the same name - 3dfx just made mac-drivers for (some of) the 3dfx boards when were still in business. I have seen (on the web), that several have had success with the 3dfx and Linux (e.g. Yellow Dog), but I cannot find any Debian Linux examples. This means, that it should be possible with Debian somehow - right? I'm fairly new to Linux, so I guess I have to learn as I go - but I've been a (embedded) software professional for more than 20 years, so I should have a change :-) The 6400 is equipped with a Valkyrie chip, so I can try that one. However I do not have a clue of what to specify as the (PCI-) address to get to this chip instead of the 3dfx board. But I might use the mailing lists and see what I can find out. I will let you know if I do any progress, just for the record. I think I have to experiment a bit with building and installing a new kernel anyway, since I need drivers for the Tulip ethernet chip on the network card in comm slot 2 of the mac. Again thanks for your help - overall the Debian Linux has been a positive experiment - as long as I stay with the ol' text based console interface. regards, Soren > From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:16:26 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug#185207: XFree86 problems with 3dfx Voodoo3 on a Performa6400 > Resent-From: Debian BTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-To: Søren Ilsøe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:18:32 GMT > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:09:17PM +0100, S?ren Ils?e wrote: >> Thanks for the prompt response. I have already searched the archives (and >> also other sources using google and alltheweb) but I cannot find any useful >> config. files. Those I have tried does not work for me. >> >> However, since the tdfx driver is included in the Debian distribution I >> would expect it should be possible to use it, or? > > Well, you *are* using it. Just not successfully. I only have a limited > amount of hardware at my disposal; if I disabled everything I didn't > have personal experience with, I'd have a lot of unhappy users. > > If the consensus on the debian-powerpc mailing list is that the tdfx > driver doesn't work for anyone, period, then yes, I'll turn it off in > future builds. But the upstream default is to build it for PowerPC, and > I don't second-guess upstream without reason. > >> Do you know what to do if I would use the native graphics board on the >> Powermac 6400? > > This question is probably better directed to the debian-powerpc mailing > list. Keep in mind that you're not just limited to searching web > archives of the list for answers; you can subscribe to the list and ask > your own questions if you can't find any evidence that they've been > asked before. > > I thought all of the OldWorld PowerMacs had onboard video via chips > called Chaos, Control, or Valkyrie (or embedded ATI chips). As far as I > know those are all supported via the kernel's fbcon drivers, so you can > use the XFree86 fbdev driver with those, if nothing else. > >> As far as I can read from the documentation I would need an >> external PCI graphics board (which the 3dfx Voodoo3 is). > > Is it one made specifically for Macs, or is it a PC Voodoo3? > >> Do you have any hints about where the problem could be? > > Not really; the log wasn't very helpful, unfortunately. > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | Reality is what refuses to go away > Debian GNU/Linux | when I stop believing in it. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Philip K. Dick > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | >
