Re: xserver segfaults

[Arlie Glenn Capps <agc1@email.byu.edu>]

Hello,

I am one of the several trying unsuccessfully to use the accelerated driver for
Voodoo3 video cards.  I have a 6500, booting out of BootX, running a 2.4.16
kernel that I recompiled to have Voodoo framebuffer support.

> http://v.favrenicolin.free.fr/linuxppc/ is where you want to go to get some 
> information about voodoo3 and linux...
> 

I am trying to follow the procedure on this page, but I haven't been able to get
fbset to work properly: when I run fbset it says that I am running at
1024x768-116 (?!).  When I try to set the mode (say, to 1024x768-75 or
800x600-75 or whatever) nothing appears to happen, and the next time I run it
fbset says I am still at 1024x768-116.  I am including in the kernel arguments
video=tdfx:vmode=16:cmode=2,noaccel.
What might I be doing wrong? :)

Thanks very much.
Arlie Capps

I am trying to _find_ the fine manual!