Well, actually I just figured it out this week:
Building XFree86 4.x w/Voodoo 5 Support
(This worked on MDK 8, probably works on MDK7.2)
1. Make sure Glide_V5 & Glide_V5-devel are installed
2. Download the XFree86-4.0.*.src.rpm from your local Mandrake Mirror or CD
--------Here on in, do everthing as root------------------------
3. Install the .src.rpm using "rpm -ivh XFree86-4.0.x.src.rpm"
4. Again as root, open (using your favourite editor w/o linewrap) the
/usr/src/RPM/SPECS/XFree86-4.spec file.
5. Install any(if needed) packages mentioned in the first "Requires" line
6. Scroll down to the section labeled "%package glide-module"
7. Comment out the line "%BuildRequires: Glide_V3-DRI-devel" like so:
#%BuildRequires: Glide_V3-DRI-devel
8. Just below the line you commented out, put in:
BuildRequires: Glide_V5-devel
9. If you like, you can go back to the top of the file and change
the "%define release 7mdk" to something more to your liking
10. Save the file now and quit your editor.
11. Now we build the packages, type:
"rpm -ba --target=i586 /usr/src/RPM/SPECS/XFree86-4.spec"
12. Go out or go read a book, go to the pub, or go to sleep. The building
process takes a good deal of time.
13. If the packages built successfully, shutdown to console mode
14. Log in as root
15. Do an "rpm -Uvh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586/XFree86*.rpm" If this doesn't work,
try "rpm -Uvh --force /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586/XFree86*.rpm" instead
Now, everything is installed (INSTALL all of the packages you just built, it
won't work any other way), so now you can either do an "init 5" to bring back
KDM or you can switch consoles and log in as another non-root user and run
startx. Try Tuxracer or Gears or something along those lines. If they don't
work, try adding "export FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=0" to your "~/.bash_profile" and
log out then log back in.
Happy TuxRacin :)
-Graham
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Onawahya D. Jones wrote:
> Ok, I'm sure this is becoming old hat to a few people, but does anyone
> out there know of a way to get 3d acceleration to work with the voodoo5
> 5500 agp. Anything, involving any kind of 3d (open gl, glide, etc)
> causes the software to crash. Is there a window switching problem? I can
> only get 3d to work under mandrake 7.2.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
