[ale] video card question

[Wandered Inn]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> The Banshee chips were the predecessor to the Voodoo2 chips.  3dfx saw a
> way to improve the Voodoo chip by adding some cache and o/cing it. 

Hmmm, well this thing is called Mighty Banshee, but voodoo2 is printed
on the box.  I tried the drivers referred to earlier by someone else and
I was able to get X up and running.  I'm going to play with it a bit on
another box before replacing my Matrox Millennium card with it.

 For
> the most part, it's v2 compatible. You can get Banshee and v2 drivers
> from linuxberg.com
> 
> Banshee, v2, v3, TNT, Matrox...are all chipsets.  However 3dfx has
> decided to not only sell chipsets, but now also cards, giving us the
> Voodoo3-2000/3000/3500 family of cards.
> 
> FWIW, I have a banshee card and it rocks.
> 
> -Jim
> 
> Wandered Inn wrote:
> >
> > I recently picked up a no-name video card that I'd like to see if I
> > could get it to work with Linux.  It's by a company named InnoVision and
> > is called a Mighty Banshee.  It says it's a Voodoo2 card, but I can't
> > find any specific info on the actual chipset.  A bit of ignorance here,
> > but is Voodoo2 a chipset, or a specific technology that is supported by
> > various chipsets?  The company has a web site, but it pretty much sucks
> > as well as the docs that came with the card.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > Until later: Geoffrey           esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
> >
> > It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy.
> >         -- Larry Wall, creator of the programming language Perl

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com

It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy.
	-- Larry Wall, creator of the programming language Perl