Re: 3Dfx X Server and drivers

[John Gould <johng@skeletor.powinv.co.uk>]

Yes,
    Agreed, the driver goes in '/usr/local/bin' or anywhere else you wish
to place it. Just the sum link in /dev. Sorry to misslead.

Regards JohnG


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On Fri, 26 May 2000, Patrick Maheral wrote:

> 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
> 
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