Re: Misdetection of Voodoo3?

[Don Kelly <karfai@shaolin.glub.org>]

Not sure if this'll help or not.. I had the same problem, ever after re-compiling the Voodoo 3
DRM module.  In the device section, I had to specifically state I was using a Voodoo 3:
  Section "Device"
      Identifier "Voodoo3"
      Driver     "tdfx"
      VendorName "3dfx"
  EndSection

  Now that I think about it, this may be mentioned in the Voodoo 3 section of the DRI User's Guide
at dri.sourceforge.net.

D Kelly
don.kelly2@sympatico.ca

On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 07:17:59AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 11:08:42PM -0400, Burton Windle wrote:
> > Pardon my ignorance/non-developerness, but I can't seem to understand why
> > I'm seeing this in my /var/log/XFree86.0.log file:
> > 
> > (EE) TDFX(0): DRI requires Voodoo3 or later, disabling DRI.
> > 
> > I have a VooDoo3 2000 PCI card.  My XFree86.0.log, XFree86 conf file, and
> > dmesg files are available at http://ingainesville.com/~bwindle/XF4
> > 
> > Thank you so much for making Debian the best distro!
> 
> I run exactly this card at home.  I think this may be a mistaken error
> message.  What kernel are you using?  The problem may actually be that:
> 
> A) your kernel has no DRM support for the Voodoo3; or
> B) you're not running a recent enough kernel for the DRM/DRI handshaking
> 
> For B) to be satisfied you need to be running -- IIRC -- 2.4.0-test9 or
> 2.2.18pre15 or later.
>