X4 and my Voodoo Banshee

[Nigel Gregoire <gregoirn@unbc.ca>]

I'm having a hell of a time getting this to work.

I'm running a mostly-clean install of Debian.  It'd be wholly clean,
except that when I set my sources to woody to get the .debs I'd like,
dselect threw in a bunch more and I wasn't inclined to argue :)

Anyways, as the subjects says, I'm trying to get X4 running _properly_
with my video card, meaning that I'd like to have proper acceleration of X
with my Banshee.  I followed the instructions at debianplanet for X4 under
3dfx cards, but it balked at the libglide3 step, and when I searched the
packages under dselect I couldn't find it either.

But I have installed the proper libglide2 packages, or so it appears.  As
I understand it, I now have to install the device3dfx packages for
libglide2 to run properly.  I've downloaded and installed the source .deb,
and now I'm lost.  Am I supposed to compile a new kernel, since it seems
to want compiled kernel sources in /usr/src/linux?  I tried out the
header-package, ran debian/buildpkg, got a .deb out of that, but it
doesn't install properly.

So what's the secret?  What am I supposed to do?  I'm not sure exactly
_how_ I'm supposed to compile the .deb myself, so it's possible and likely
that I've done something wrong in that regards.  I'm willing to compile a
kernel, if I have to.  I'm willing to reinstall if that's needed.

So what am I supposed to do?

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