Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:56:22 +0000 From: John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk> To: "Steve Hodgson" <steve@shodgson.org.uk> Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voodoo Graphics Cards Message-ID: <8vp90vg74pn1fv4td5ijbve7l9tjik2jvq@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <497409983-BeMail@> References: <497409983-BeMail@>
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"Steve Hodgson" <steve@shodgson.org.uk> wrote: >I have been trying to fing out if a 3dfx voodoo 3500 AGP is compatible=20 >with FreeBSD 4.7. I have managed to everything up to a successsful GUI >-free login. I checked out the various web resources and usenet with=20 >no success. My FreeBSD book (FreeBSd Unleashed) doen't list the card=20 >in the supported hardware. I've had a voodoo3 running quite well with Direct Rendering = Infrastructure (DRI) and Glide 3. The following URL leads to good information: http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/install.html (Watch out for the typo though 'ports/graphics/linux-dri' should be - ports/graphics/linux_dri) If you just want a GUI for now you'll get good results using the tdfx = driver. >I have used the cadr succesfully with Linux, BeOS and Windows (not XP)=20 >so assumed it would be OK under FreeBSD too. You assumed correctly :) The tdfx section from the Linux /etc/X11/XF86Config file should work. --=20 John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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