[PLUG] v3 + linux mandrake

[Dave Jones]

I am by no means new to linux, but I also have many problems related to my
voodoo3 3000 AGP in an Athalon system.

Xfree86 3.3.6 performs well in all tasks except for opengl stuff and
commercial games such as quake3 or soldier of fortune. (Howeber, quake2
runs beautifully)
*ususally* the os is SuSE 6.4, I have also tried the XiG Accelerated X
voodoo3 driver and Xfree864.0, but they do not allow for my monitor's full
desktop footprint, and I have a nasty nearly 1" black border around the
screen...perhaps Xfree4.01 fixes some of these issues?..also this is with
both kernels 2.2.16 and 2.4test6.


 On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, kirk faulkner
wrote:

> hi guys/gals
> 
> i just installed linux mandrake 7.1 yesterday so obviously i'm completely new at this and right now i'm trying to install v3 drivers.  i'm getting them from linux.3dfx.com and trying to install the v3 reference drivers.  the problem is that after rpm'ing the XFree86_SVGA_3.3.5-4.i386.rpm package (it said i had an upgraded package) the second rpm package (XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.5-4.i386) will not install cuz it says it needs sone XFree86_VGA16 package.  if anybody out there has a v3 did you get this problem when trying to install drivers?  and if you did did you correct it by getting this package or is there a work around.
> 
> mandrake has v3 generic support but i don't know if their driver supports glide/opengl games.  in the control panel it does have mesa morph3d and mesa gears that i can run but i don't think that will help me.  if someone has a v3 comfigured correctly so for example so i can play q3/ut/etc
> can you tell me step by step how you did it?
> 
> the kernel is 2.2.15 and the xfree86 version is 3.3.6.  i have an athlon 650, 192 ram (for some reason linux doesn't recognize all of it), sound blaster 128, v3 2000 pci, 10 gig hard drive (dual win/linux boot), tv card.  thanks for any help you can give me.
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