how do I setup 3d acceleration with a 3dfx voodoo 2 ?

TheJabberwokk

I want to set up 3d acceleration on my younger brother's machine. He has a voodoo 2 and wants glide capabilities.

sindre · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 315 Location: Norway

Portage has no way of installing voodoo2 3d accel, only voodoo 3+. I tried to install glide from source, but it would not compile. I managed to get glide going by installing some rpms I found by searching, however I didn't mange to get mesa to use it.

psy_ill · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 106

I'm having difficulties getting my voodoo 2 to work with xfree...

I have installed some rpm containing the right drivers and I also placed a link in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules to the libglide2x.so file, added a "Device" entry in XF86Config with the option "driver" set to "glide" but it doesn't seem like xfree is capable of finding the driver though. The card is found when I run lspci so the hardware is no problem.

I tried running xfree with the switch -configure but it still won't find the driver.

Do I have to recompile xfree for some weird reason?
If anyone could post a working XF86Config file I may be able to sort things out... thanks in advance...

FungosBauux · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Posts: 36 Location: CWB

try Mandrake it gets working with voodoo2... i have a voodoo2 too, and im going to buy a geforce, gentoo donts seens to care with old hardware compat.
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TheJabberwokk · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:30 pm Post subject: oh well.

For this machine I just picked up a geforce2 at staples as a replacement. I gave up.