[ale] A little 3dfx help please...

[James CE Johnson]

Scott Nolde wrote:

> James CE Johnson wrote:
> >
> > I'm having some Bad Things happen when I try out any of those whacky
> > Loki games.
> >
> > I recently upgraded my RedHat 6.2 to Mandrake 7.2.  The 2.2.17 kernel
> > they provided was fairly evil, so I grabbed the 2.2.18 sources
> > & installed it.  Other than that, everything *should* be vanilla
> > Mandrake 7.2.  That means XFree86 4.0.1 with all the fixin's.
> >
> > When I run test3Dfx I get the expected bright-blue screen but when I hit
> > "A key" to continue it locks up the display.  Um... I've got a Voodoo
> > 3000 BTW.  And that's if I'm root.  It dumps core if I try as a normal
> > user.  If I try, for instance, the Heavy Gear II demo it tells me I have
> > a framerate of several thousand seconds per frame.  Not good...  I'm
> > assuming that means it isn't accessing the 3dfx hardware.
> >
> > Any suggestions?  I've not had much luck or experience with the 3d
> > stuff.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > J
> >
>
> Do you have 800x600 in the XF86Config file?  It requires this
> resolution, I think.

Yea, everything from 1280 -> 640 in 16bpp.  It seems to actually like
640 at 16bpp the best.

I don't know what's up with test3Dfx but the hg2 actually *does* run if I
login as root.  If I could get it to behave as a normal user I'd be quite
happy.  Oh, and 24bpp would be nice too :-)



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