[ale] Voodoo 3 3000 & Glide?

[hugme at hugme.org]

it looks like you are missing somthing in your kernal at first glance... the
hardware isn't set up

on a seprate note(what I wanted to comment on): the voodoo3 3000 cards are
notorious for overheating, make sure you have good airflow through your box
when you run it.


On 28-Dec-99 Dave Brooks wrote:
> Welp, Santa treated me well to a Voodoo3 3000.
> 
> However, I'm experiencing a little difficulty getting this thing to work
> correctly.  Here's what I've done thus far:
> 
> o I've rebuilt the entire XFree86-3.3.5.src.rpm into a binary RPM for
>       my system and installed it;
> o I've configured X to use the SVGA server;
> o I've rebuilt the Device3Dfx-2.3-3.src.rpm into a binary RPM for my
>       system and installed it;
> o I installed the Glide2x package (also tried the Glide3x package, but not
>       concurrently, obviously)
> 
> When I try and run the glide test (/usr/local/glide/bin/test3Dfx), it says to
> "press any key to begin test"; and when I do that it reports this error:
> 
> --- snip snip ---
> 
> gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board
> gd error (glide): grSstSelect:  non-existent SST
> zsh: segmentation fault  ./test3Dfx
> 
> --- snip snip ---
> 
> I've tried installing the Glide3x package, both seperately and by --force'ing
> the
> installation of the RPM over the Glide2x, etc.  Am I missing a step, here? 
> Should
> I be looking for anything else?  On linux.3dfx.com, it said that when I run
> XF86Setup,
> I should configure both the 2D resolutions I want X to run at and the 3D
> screeen
> resolutions.  I didn't see an option for the 3D aspect.  Did I overlook
> something?
> 
> Thanks, and Regards,
> Dave Brooks
> 
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