From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Dec 21 14:56:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD94937B401 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:56:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow053o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5991F43EDC for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:56:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfm@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from lexx ([62.31.198.203]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:56:51 +0000 From: John Murphy To: "Steve Hodgson" Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voodoo Graphics Cards Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:56:22 +0000 Organization: poor Reply-To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: <8vp90vg74pn1fv4td5ijbve7l9tjik2jvq@4ax.com> References: <497409983-BeMail@> In-Reply-To: <497409983-BeMail@> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.9/32.560 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Steve Hodgson" wrote: >I have been trying to fing out if a 3dfx voodoo 3500 AGP is compatible=20 >with FreeBSD 4.7. I have managed to everything up to a successsful GUI >-free login. I checked out the various web resources and usenet with=20 >no success. My FreeBSD book (FreeBSd Unleashed) doen't list the card=20 >in the supported hardware. I've had a voodoo3 running quite well with Direct Rendering = Infrastructure (DRI) and Glide 3. The following URL leads to good information: http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/install.html (Watch out for the typo though 'ports/graphics/linux-dri' should be - ports/graphics/linux_dri) If you just want a GUI for now you'll get good results using the tdfx = driver. >I have used the cadr succesfully with Linux, BeOS and Windows (not XP)=20 >so assumed it would be OK under FreeBSD too. You assumed correctly :) The tdfx section from the Linux /etc/X11/XF86Config file should work. --=20 John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message