Re: 3dfx banshee with slink + 1/2
--- "David N. Welton" <davidw@prosa.it> wrote:
>
> I have the 'slink and a half' distribution, and I'm
> wondering if there
> is any way to wedge a driver for the 3dfx banshee
> card that I have in.
> I tried downloading one from 3dfxgamers.com (only
> rpm's... lame), but
> there were some missing symbols in the binary, so it
> didn't work.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
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I have the Banshee card and was able to load 3dfx
driver, SVGA driver, and XF86 Setup from the
3dfxgamers site on my "updated" slink install and had
it working fine w/ slink. They also translated well to
the upgrade to potato w/ 2.2.12 kernel.
To circumvent the rpm only nature of the drivers I
used alien e.g.:
=>alien -d Device3Dfx-2.3-1.src.rpm
Then used dpkg to install e.g.:
=>dpkg -i Device3Dfx-2.3-1_all.deb
Other than the package conversion and non-rpm
command line install I followed the instructions for
the installation that were posted on the package
download page and have not had a problem. Hope it goes
the same for you.
T. Stetson
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