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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:13:23 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        K.J.Bosschaart@wtb.tue.nl
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: voodoo2 card not found
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000131111323.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000131013743.A16660@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>

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On 31-Jan-00 Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:
>  test it complains that it cannot find the card: 
>  libglide2x.so expected Voodoo, none detected

This can happen if you aren't root.

The glide libs need to be root to open /dev/io to talk to the card.
Linux has /dev/3dfx which allows non-root access to the card.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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