Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:47:54 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: "Bill A. K." <billak@geocities.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voodoo Banshee Video (Creative 3D Blaster Banshee AGP) 16 Mb Card Message-ID: <37957B2A.78303818@alcatel.fr> References: <000801bed2f5$1d05ea60$01010101@bopper>
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First of all : please post here in plain text (HTML is for web pages) you may want to have a look at the latest 3.3.4 version of Xfree86 (www.xfree86.org) : there may be an "official" version of the server for the banshee. TfH > "Bill A. K." wrote: > > Hello, > I am trying to get X to run a Voodoo Banshee Video card, and I > can't get it to work. There is a X server for the Banshee out > there(you can find it at > http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html), but it is for > Linux(libc5 and glibc) i tried the libc5 version with the Linux LKM > but it blows up looking for the tty devices(tty0, tty4, etc.) and > exits. I also tried a NetBSD Port of the same X Server and it says: > "Bad Magic: ld.so" and exits. I tried making hard links from the > FreeBSD device names to their Linux counterparts, but i don't know the > correct counterpart names. If you know the FreeBSD device names that > are equal to the Linux tty0, tty4, etc,(who knows, it might not work > even then) or if you know how to get the NetBSD version running please > let me know, and if you have a way to get the Banshee running other > than these servers, please also let me know. By the way i think i can > get the standard SVGA server to run at 640x480 at 256 colors, but i > need higher than that. > > If you can, I would really like it if you could help me out. > > Thanks in advance, > > Bill > billak@geocities.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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