From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 1 14:54:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0C237B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296CA43ED1 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:54:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 3527F4FC8A; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:37:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD9B4A0E; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:37:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:37:07 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Steve Hodgson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <8995963969-BeMail@> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Steve Hodgson wrote: > Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:58:43 GMT > From: Steve Hodgson > 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