Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:37:07 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Steve Hodgson <steve@shodgson.org.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301011735340.19418-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <8995963969-BeMail@>
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Steve Hodgson wrote: > Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:58:43 GMT > From: Steve Hodgson <steve@shodgson.org.uk> > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD > > Sorry to be still hammering on about this problem - I am starting to > feel a bit dense. > > I've tried a few times now to get FreeBSD running a GUI with my Voodoo > 3500 AGP card. Thanks to some helpful advice from > questions@freebsd.org I reckon that I should be able to get things > running using the tdfx X-server. Other advice is that if my card ain't > listed explicitly, it won't work. > > Longer term, a carefully-chosen card will be a great solution - at this > point though I just want to try things out and the number of cards that > will run BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD and/or Windows (this last reluctantly) > seems a little limited. As an aside one of the problems here is that > BeOS now seems happier with *old* graphics cards (one of the problems > that got me looking for the ONE OS in the first place). > > When I try to run the tdfx driver I am still unable to complete X > Windows installation successfully so I suspect that it really may be a > case of having to specify a specific card for a trouble free GUI. > > Just as an experiment I stuck on the latest Mandrake 9.0; in half an > hour and I was up and running Gnome 2.0 with no problems whatsoever > using a generic Voodoo driver. Am I being stupid in thinking that this > is the same XFree86? > > I really don't want to go down a Linux route, I've been burned too many > times there in the past. Any expertise greatly welcome at this point. > > cheers, > > Steve Hodgson > As fars as a card that works widely, nVidia provides binary drivers with 3d accelleration for Win32, Linux and BSD for their current cards. My Geforce2 AGP works great in Linux and BSD. Just a thought. That Voodoo3 should work fine, though no acdeleration tihs side of Mesa (software). JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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