Re: Hardware acceleration for Voodoo 3
Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Hello List
>
> After my upgrade to woody (and XFree4), I cannot run q3a and ut any
> more. Both of them crash X comletely (means: gdm restartsthe X server
> automatically after a few seconds). I do not know where to start
> searching for the reasons of this. According to a posting in the
> debian-x list, I only need the xserver-package and xlibsmesa3-package.
> Hmmm, I got these, it still does not work. So I tried out libglide3
> (which replaces xlibmesa3) --> Same problem. I'm sure I have all the
> modules I need (tdfx, tdfx-dri, glx for X, agpgart, 3dfx and tdfx for
> the kernel)
> So, has anyone this working who could help me, please?
>
You don't mention your kernel, you need to activate DRI under "Character
devices", and don't remember if is necessary, anyway, you should choose to
compile the "3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+" like a module.
You need the xlibmesa3 and libglide3 packages (i'm using Sid, so have the
xlibmesa3_4.0.2-13 and libglide3_2001.01.26-1 installed). You don't need anymore
the /dev/3dfx device (but you aren't forced to remove if you have both XFree
3.3.6 and XFree 4.x installed).
Check the X log (/var/log/XFree86.0.log), you will find the string "(II)
TDFX(0): direct rendering enabled" if the dri is working...
If quake3 don't work try with "./q3demo +set r_gldriver /usr/lib/libGL.so" to
use the system libraries instead of the libraries provided with the game
(libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.2).
And remember, dri is cool, but it's a bit slower instead of only glide
implementation... =)
Adrea
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