Re: 3Dfx X Server and drivers

[Patrick Maheral <pmaheral@aai.ca>]

On Fri, 26 May 2000, John Gould wrote:
> Hi there,
> probably need to manually install the actual driver as the dpkg install
> didn't install the driver in /dev. If I remember correctly I moved the
> driver to /dev and set up the symlink by hand. All then worked fine. Run
> 3dfx's test programs to check. If you look at the driver source in the
> directory you built the driver in all should be clear.
> 
> HTH JohnG

Carefull, the driver does not go into the /dev directory.  It should go
somewhere like /lib/modules/2.x.y/misc.  I think you meant that you had
to create a device(s) with the appropriate major/minor number(s).

I too had to move a file or two by hand, but it works just fine.

Patrick