Hi people, device3dfx is a kernel module to allow user-space applications (quake :}) access to 3Dfx cards without needing to be run as root. This package consists *only* of a GPL'd kernel module. As such it can IMHO go into main. It could be argued that you can only use it via the Glide libraries, which aren't free at all, and it should therefore go into contrib. This point may need discussion. Notes: /dev/3dfx -- needs to be created. If this package is accepted, support for it should go into MAKEDEV, as opposed to doing a mknod in the postinst (which lintian complains about). The packaging is based on pcmcia-cs, and I hope it will work with make-kpkg in the same way. I don't use make-kpkg, so I haven't *really* checked, but "debian/rules kdist" seems to do the right thing. device3dfx, the source package, comes with one binary package, device3dfx-source. This consists of docs and /usr/src/device3dfx.tar.gz, which then extracts to /usr/src/modules/device3dfx/..., which seems right. It can be used to generate device3dfx-modules-* packages. SRH -- Steve Haslam Debian GNU/Linux araqnid@debian.org gnome-libs, gnome-core, gnome-control-center, gdm, p3nfs. what, me worry?
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