attention: voodoo3 owners
dear fellow voodoo3 owners,
the debian driver for your card will NOT work with 2.4 kernels. not even if
you compile it from the source code.
the file operations table is an array of pointers to functions which
implement file operations which would be useful to a device, like reading
and writing.
the problem is, when linux attempts to support new devices, new operations
need to be implemented, so the file operations table (fops table) needs to
be changed from time to time.
the fops table is different between the 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. hence, your
card will not work under 2.4 without modifying 3dfx_driver.c.
i have the diff necessary to upgrade your driver to 2.4, but it's not
perfect. it works very well, but there are some games where opengl
functions don't do their thing. sometimes you can see through walls, or
sometimes textures get "beads" around them. it's not really bad; just
annoying. some games are affected quite a bit, like soldier of fortune
(love that game!). some seem to be affected almost not at all, like
quake 3.
my recommendation is to stay with 2.2. but if you really want to upgrade to
2.4, some kind soul was nice enough to post his 2.4 upgrade diff to the
debain bug-track site. if you have trouble applying his patch, i'll send
you my copy.
hopefully, the opengl glitches will be solved sooner or later. i've emailed
the maintainer, steve haslam, twice and he's ignored my emails. he has
unclosed bug reports that date back to over 200 days ago, so i'm not sure
we're going to see an update for this driver for a while.
pete
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