From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 17:29:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFC06153AA for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:29:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 47163 invoked from network); 16 Sep 1999 00:29:11 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 1999 00:29:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:29:10 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: David Booth Cc: Reinhart.Steyaert@dewildecbt.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Dfx Banshee driver In-Reply-To: <37DDB71F.C8CC7132@austin.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, David Booth wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have FreeBSD 3.2 installed. I want to run X windows. I managed it to run X > > Windows in 320x200 :-) and 640x400 or something. I want much higher > > resolutions. There's no support for the 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee card in FreeBSD > > 3.2. But there's a driver available for it at > > http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html for LINUX and NETBSD. Can I > > use this driver without any problems for FreeBSD? Any suggestions what I > > should do to get X Windows running in 1024x768 if I cannot use this driver? > > What's the best way to install this driver on a machine with NO Internet > > connection and FreeBSD 3.2 and Windows NT 4.0 on it? If you are unable to upgrade ot a later XFree version, there is a creative driver available for Linux, which works under FreeBSD. You need to be running the Linuxulator, of course. It works pretty well. Teh only problems I have with it are it will not cope with /dev/sysmouse, and it ligths the the keyboard leds wrong. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message