Re: Voodoo3 support?

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, John L Grantham wrote:

Hi all,

I recently got a Voodoo3-compatible card, the MP960 from Vilage Tronics, 
for my beige G3. Naturally I would like to get accelerated video with 
this card, but haven't been able to decipher what's going on with 
development. I read that 3dfx has released a closed driver for Intel and 
Voodoo3 cards, and that development is underway for PPC (with beta 
versions available somewhere), but don't grasp what I need to do to get 
it running (newbie alert! klaxons sounding!). There seem to be multiple 
possibilities that I can't pick out from one another...

  I am working on voodoo support, you can get a kernel/X in 
ftp://idd-01.imbc.gr/pub/voodoo3/ its not perfect yet but its getting
closer :)

Any suggestions as to where I can get more info? I mainly want 
accelerated X. 3D support would be nice (OpenGL? Dare I hope?), but not 
critical--though I do have a pile of Loki games I'd like to play. :-)

  accel in X is there, no 3D support yet (Glide3 is mostly done, and i am
working on porting DRI right now, no timeframe though :( )

I'm running LinuxPPC 1999 Q3 with XFree86 3.3.4 on a beige G3 MT/266 with 
an Apple Studio Display 17" monitor. The card uses a Voodoo3-3000/5 
chipset with 16 MB RAM and has a single VGA port and Y/C video out/in 
ports.

While I'm on the subject, I also use both video cards under MacOS (the 
MP960 and the on-board ATI Rage Pro). What about using multiple monitors 
under LinuxPPC? Is there support for that?

Thanks in advance,

John

  Kostas Gewrgiou


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