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Date:      Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:47:12 -0500 (EST)
From:      Joe O <joeo@cracktown.com>
To:        Joao Borges <joao_francisco_borges@yahoo.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: voodoo 3 agp instalation
Message-ID:  <20051221132311.R79217@clubfoot.cracktown.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051220223711.52975.qmail@web50509.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20051220223711.52975.qmail@web50509.mail.yahoo.com>

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The tdfx driver is for the older fullscreen only glide2 apps.

If you are only interested in "better" 2D X11 performance you'll need the
"tdfx" as the "Driver" in the X11 config's "Device" section
(/etc/X11/XFree86.conf or more recently /etc/X11/xorg.conf).

The voodoo 3/4/5 supports 3D opengl acceleration in XFree86 or X.org's
implementation of X11, for which you need the "tdfxdrm" kernel module, the
device nodes for that appear in /dev/dri/ when the card is detected and
the kernel module loaded.

You'll need to have 'load "dri"' and 'load "glx"' in the X11 config's
"Module" section.

For 3D acceleration you'll also need the x11-servers/driglide or
graphics/glide3 port (not sure which you'll have in your ports
tree) installed.  Note that the voodoo3 only supports opengl in 16bit
color depth with the DRI.

The voodoo3 is getting a bit dated hardware wise.
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ should have some notes about it.

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Joao Borges wrote:

>
>
>    Hello everybody
>
>    I=B4ve been using FreeBSD 5.4 for 3 or 4 months by
> now and I have allways used my on-board video card on
> my pretty old computer.
>
>    Sometime ago I decided to install my Voodoo 3 3000
> on the  AGP expansion slot to use it to improve the
> performance of X.
>
>    So I recompiled the kernell including tdfx driver
> in it, and as I read on the documentation it would add
> a voodoo device on my devices under /dev.
>
>    It figures that nothing happens, but the driver is
> there   when I run kldstat
> # kldstat
> Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>  1   16 0xc0400000 427988   kernel
>  2    2 0xc0828000 1d4fc    sound.ko
>  3    1 0xc0846000 4664     snd_t4dwave.ko
>  4   14 0xc084b000 56270    acpi.ko
>  5    1 0xc1640000 2000     dragon_saver.ko
>  6    1 0xc1649000 17000    linux.ko
>  7    1 0xc18b5000 8000     sis.ko
>  8    1 0xc1ba4000 6000     tdfx.ko
>
>     Can anybody tell what is wrong?
>
>     Thanks
>     Joao Francisco
>
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