David Steinberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what to do to set up my > voodoo 3 to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL under X 3.3.6? > > At this point, what I think I know is that Mesa is a free implementation > of the OpenGL API, and that it can work with (over?) Glide, which is the > Voodoo's API (also the name of the implementation thereof). Am I anywhere > close? > > But I'm completely lost as to what to do to get it to work... > > I've installed the following packages (from potato): > libglide2-v3 > libglide2-dev > glide2-base > mesag3-glide2 > mesag3-widgets > mesag-glide2-dev > mesag-widgets-dev > > Okay, so the dev packages are probably overkill at this point, but what > the heck? :) > > If I try to run /usr/bin/test3Dfx, I get: > gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board > gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTSegmentation fault > > In the description for libglide2-v3, it says "You'll need the /dev/3dfx > kernel driver to use this library." I have no clue what to do about > this; where would I get the this kernel driver? > > I haven't had much luck in finding current documentation (I assume things > have changed significantly since the 3dfx howto was last updated 3 years > ago, since it specifically mentions that there is no kernel configuration > necessary). If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd be most > appreciative. >
You need to install or build the 3dfx kernel module, install the device3dfx-source package (in "sid" there is also the device3dfx-module-2.2.18) and follow the readme to create the module (easy if you use the kernel-package). To enable the hw-accelerated OpenGL (for example, the OpenGL screensaver), you should use "export MESA_GLX_FX=fullscreen" in your bash (o something like this, i don't recall correctly)... Andrea
