Re: Voodoo3 2000 problems in Woody
Hi all,
Anthony Lau wrote:
> I'm using a Voodoo3 in an Old World PowerMac4400-clone.
>
> Using a 2.4 kernel and XF4.0 or higher accelerated X works. DRI does
> not work, though. Console driver in the 2.4 kernel does work, but you
> can't read anything due to wrong edian-ness.
In order to see what is written in the console, you have to pass
'noaccel' as argument (in BootX if that's what you are using), e.g. :
video=tdfx:1024x768-8@60,noaccel. The 'noaccel' part will disable only
console acceleration (not X) and should make the console readable. It's
no extremely useful since you can't switch from X to console without
crashing, though.
As for Shawn' problem, and despite having written the aforementionned
page on using Linux/PPC with a 3dfx card, I'm afraid I don't have many
suggestions, as he seems to have tried many things. Nethertheless:
- try older kernels (2.2, or 2.4 before the major changes (2.4.8?)), who
knows...
- the fact that you do not see any problem under MacOS does not mean any
thing. My experience: when I first wanted to install LinuxPPC (think it
was R5), I failed every time with random crashes during install; I gave
up for one year until I read about Linux being more sensitive to
hardware; I tried removing all memory, and it turned out my L2 cache of
my 7300 was faulty. Never had a problem after removing it. So it could
still be a small unreliability of the 3dfx card which does not show up
under MacOS.
- finally, I do not know if the 6360 has a special hardware that may
trigger the problem
Unfortunately, I can't be of much help here, I'm working almost fully
under Linux, but mostly on an athlon box now, even if my faithful 7300
with its voodoo card is still here.
Vincent
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