Hello,
I am one of the several trying unsuccessfully to use the accelerated driver for
Voodoo3 video cards. I have a 6500, booting out of BootX, running a 2.4.16
kernel that I recompiled to have Voodoo framebuffer support.
> http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/ is where you want to go to get
>You're probably running OFfb, which can't even know what the real mode
>is, let alone change it. You need to get tdfxfb going.
>
>
Yes, when I "cat /proc/fb" it says something like "OFfb Voodoo3" (I'm not using
that computer right now, but something like that).
Anyway, when I recompiled the ker
Hooray! Thank-you all very much for the help! I realized what I was doing
wrong. I was booting using BootX, with the "no video driver" check-box checked,
which ensures that the framebuffer is used. Once I unchecked that and put the
right "video=tdfx:" kernel arg in, things started working beaut
Hello,
I have been having a troubling problem: kernel Oops have been occuring quite
often. It may be that I am running out of memory; my PowerPC 6500 has 32MB RAM
and 80 MB swap. This problem only seems to happen in X, running several
different apps, but quite inconsistently. However, when I lo
> Hello,
[snip]
> I'm running woody with packages from main, non-free, contrib and
> non-US.
Oh yes, and kernel 2.4.16.
And now INIT is panicking because of segfaults and sleeping for 30 seconds.(!!)
I don't think it's hardware, because right now Mac OS is running just fine. I
looked back at old
Hello,
I will soon compile the 2.4 kernel on my 6500. I have two questions:
1. A while ago (the last time I did this) I had to configure for USB
support in order to use the new input layer, even though the 6500
doesn't have USB. Is this still the case?
2. I'm pretty sure I must configure suppo
Thanks very much, vinai, Nathan Ingersoll.
I will try that and see what happens.
Arlie Capps
Hello!
I have a strange problem with my 6500/275, with 96MB of RAM and about twice that
of swap. I installed Woody and compiled a 2.4.16 kernel (thanks, vinai, Nathan
Ingersoll), with the tdfx framebuffer driver. It is booting fine with BootX,
and so I installed the X window system. Now it has
I forgot one important bit: I have a Voodoo 3 installed, and these problems
only happen when I use the tdfx driver. No problems with the framebuffer
driver, but it insists on running at 800x600 at a very low refresh rate.
Thanks much,
Arlie Capps
It looks like no-one else has had these problems with segfaulting/illegal
instructions after using X with the tdfx driver.
Hmm. I also a few days ago had a problem during the middle of using dselect,
without running X first. The console font, specifically capital T and capital
P, was corrupted a
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