[olug] Mesa/Glide issues

Adam Lassek lunatik at radiks.net
Sat Sep 9 00:54:21 UTC 2000


I've been to 3dfx.com, but I was not aware of linuxvoodoo.org. I'll give
them a try

Vincent wrote:
> 
> Adam Lassek wrote:
> >
> > Voodoo3 2000.
> >
> > Vincent wrote:
> > >
> > > Adam Lassek wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is there anyone here that has any experience getting these set up
> > > > properly? I've been wrestling with them for a while with no success, and
> > > > I've been trying to think of a good place to get help.
> > > >
> > > > I have mesa3d, glide_v3, glidectl and and glidesdk installed from rpm's
> > > > off of suse's ftp. I also have the 3dfx device installed and loaded, and
> > > > I got XFree86 4.01 working. Is there anything here that I'm missing? I'm
> > > > using Quake3 for Linux as a test to get this working, and it runs at
> > > > about 1-2 FPS and in software mode.
> > > >
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Have you gone through the instructions at
> 
> http://www.linuxvoodoo.org/drivers/cards/video/3dfx/banv3.html
> and
> http://linux.3dfx.com
> 
> I would be sure you have removed anything you may have already done and
> start fresh with the instructions they provide.  I have it setup on my
> system, except for XFree86-4.  I remember that the newest glide, I think
> it's v3, will not run with quake properly and will make it slow using
> software rendering.  I'm not sure about q3 though since I setup glide v2
> before Q3 was out and it ran fine...
> 
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