Re: 3dfx.o

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@belial.ucdavis.edu>]

dave,

this isn't the reply you wanted, but fwiw, i can't get the 3dfx driver to
work for the life of me.  i've been at it for a couple of days now.  i
emailed the packager, steve hasam(sp?) twice, and he hasn't replied at all.
not even a "RTFM".  (i'll leave my opinion of his maintainer's status unsaid).

i've read a number of people in the same predicament on this list.  i'd say
4 or 5 people by now, in the past 2 weeks.  one person emailed me and said
his driver worked.  i emailed him back and got no reply.

i also tried using rpm2cpio on the rpms offered on 3dfx's website.  they
compiled and didn't work either, but i should try that again.

if someone here has their voodoo 3 working, a bunch of people would really
like to hear from you!

pete



On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, David Bellows wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> At one point I had my Voodoo 3 working perfectly in Debian, but then I
> installed a new SB Live! which is where things went south.  In order to
> get sound to work I upgraded to the latest (unstable) ALSA which in turn
> required a kernel update, etc.  After a few hours I got it all working
> with the new kernel (2.2.17 as opposed to 2.2.17pre6 -- the default from
> potato).  But when I tried to load the 3dfx module I got these errors:
> 
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: unresolved symbol
> register_chrdev_R06af9881
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o
> failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/3dfx.o: insmod 3dfx failed            
> 
> As I said before, I did have all this working with kernel 2.2.17pre6. 
> So I attempted to follow the directions and recompile the 3dfx source
> for my new kernel.  No go.  I can't for the life of me get anything to
> work.  So my question is, has anyone got their Voodoo3 working with the
> woody kernel 2.2.17?  And would the compiled module 3dfx.o also work on
> my machine (AMD K6II-300)?  And so, would somebody please send me a
> copy?
> 
> Thanks,
> David Bellows
> 
> 
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