Just to put my $.02 in, I have my voodoo3 2000 PCI working fine in
X with NOTHING except Xfree86 3.3.5. I didn't use any of the 3DFX
drivers at all. Granted, I don't play Quake3 or anything, but the graphics
quality and speed are plenty good for me at this point.
Regards,
Todd
At 08:15 AM 12/24/99 -0800, Steve Winston wrote:
Concerning my problems installing a Voodoo3 card:
Do I have to install the new stock Xf86 3.3.5 drivers before I install
the the drivers I downloaded from linux.3dfx.com?
I already had the linux.3dfx.drivers as rpm files leftover from
installing them on linux mandrake 6.0. That was a hassle, too.
anyway, when I went to install them on debian, the machine told me I had to
get the xfree86 3.3.5 drivers first as my version of debian had the
3.3.2 drivers. So, I did apt-get, etc, and got them. But I guess I havent
installed them correctly because when I try to install the 3dfx drivers,
the install programs complains about installing them with the stock 3.3.5
drivers. What was your experience installing the driver for Voodoo3?
I did it OK in linux mandrake although there was a lot of downloading and
installing.
thanks and merry xmas, Steve
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
if you want 3D acceleration make sure to get the XF86 drivers from
http://linux.3dfx.com as they are heavily modified. the stock XF86 3.3.5
doesnt work so great with my banshee..(which uses the same driver)
nate
On 21 Dec 1999, Steve Winston wrote:
xee42 >Helphelp,
xee42 >I am trying to install 3dfx Xfree86 drivers for my voodoo3 video card.
I am
xee42 >running into a conflict between these drivers and the debian drivers.I
am
xee42 >using Debian that Oreilly and Var are selling. 2.1.? Any ideas how
xee42 >to get around this. Details are below:
xee42 >I have successfully downloaded and installed Xfree86 3.3.5 from
debian.org.
xee42 >Also, I have installed the RedHat package manager that works with
alien. Now,
xee42 >I have 5 rpm packages of the 3dfx Xfree86 drivers to install. Soooo:
xee42 >alien -i Xfree86~1.rpm (to take care of the first package)
xee42 > Installation starts but ends with following messages:
xee42 > Unpacking xfree86-SVGA (from Xfree86-svga-3.3.35-1.6_i386.deb)
xee42 > dpkg: error processing xfree86-svga_3.3.5-1.6.i386.deb (--install):
xee42 > trying to overwrite '/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA', which is also in
xee42 > package xserver-svga
xee42 > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pipe)
xee42 > Errors were encountered whil processing:
xee42 > xfree86-svga_3.3.5-1.6_i386.deb
xee42 >alien: error running: dpkg --no-force-overwrite -i xfree86
xee42 >(and more stuff, but I got called away and didn't finish writing it
all).
xee42 > Note: I had two install two Glide packages, also .rpm, that I used
xee42 >alien -i to install and it all went well and slick.
xee42 > Adios, Steve
xee42 >
xee42 >
xee42 >
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