Re: slow gl graphics

[Geoff Crompton <geoff.crompton@bjhcontrols.com.au>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 08:17:40PM +0200, burkhard@sportident.de wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Geoff Crompton wrote:
> [...]
> >   The banshee pre-dates the voodoo3. It came out after the voodoo2, and
> >   I imagine (though I can't back this up) that the banshee is closer to
> >   the voodoo2 than the voodoo3.
> i think under xfree3x the banshee was treated the same as the voodoo3
> >
> >   I think (and I will have to check this at home) that when I run the
> >   glide test binaries, I get errors about not being able to access the
> >   /dev/3dfx device. Can anyone give me more information about what
> >   supplies this 3dfx device?
> 
> are you using xfree3x? then you will need this to get it working. there
> was a debianpackage (i think tdfx or something) that provided that
> device. 
> i never got it working with xfree3x and the whole seems rather ugly
> there. with version four i had no problems at all, so i would recommend
> using xfree4. if you have the latter then you have just installed the
> wrong libraries.

  I'm running xfree4. So do I need to get the deivce3dfx-source package,
  and compile a module? I am running 2.4.18, does this include that
  module already?
  Are the libglide2 libraries what I want for xfree4?

  Thanks
  Geoff