Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:27:08 -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.4.44.0301011712220.19418-100000@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
>
I'm not sure what you're using to configure XFree86, but if you use the
good ol' reliable xf86config(1), you'll find the card listed as
530 Voodoo3 (generic) Voodoo3
I've gotten this working with an AGP 3500 (at a friend's house) and it
works like a charm on my PCI Voodoo3-2000. No 3d acceleration, but on that
box I don't care, and it gives me 1280x1024 @ 24 bpp which is great.
Here is my XF86Config file as it was generated by xf86config (minus the
comments):
~~~~~~ /etc/XF86Config ~~~~~~~~~~~
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psm0"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "cpd-200es"
HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0
VertRefresh 50-100
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "vga"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Voodoo3 (generic)"
Driver "tdfx"
#VideoRam 16378
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "Voodoo3 (generic)"
Monitor "cpd-200es"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
~~~~~~~~~ end XF86Config ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
HTH - JB
# John Bleichert
# http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg
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