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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:47:54 +0200
From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr>
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To: "Bill A. K." <billak@geocities.com>
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Subject: Re: Voodoo Banshee Video (Creative 3D Blaster Banshee AGP) 16 Mb Card
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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
> 
>


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