Voodoo 3 bug on 2.3.99pre3

hello all...

ok i dont know weather i am writing to the right people but here goes.

 I have a voodoo 3 2000 PCI card on my UMAX s900 SMP and i was trying to get
the SMP and the Voodoo to work with linux I decided to start with the
graphics card i got a 2.3.99pre3 kernel via ftp from kernel.org and compiled
it with voodoo support but NO ati card support (since i dont have ati --
well i do but i dont use it and it failed to compile when i had ATI checked
anyway) thus i it compiled booted but the whoole console display was
completely messed up sorta reversed with weird colors etc basically a
complete mess.

 So i was just wondering if anyone had any ideas on getting it to work or am
i wasting my time.....

thanks =)

PS talk about a weird/unsupported setup eh....


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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, sabotage wrote:

 I have a voodoo 3 2000 PCI card on my UMAX s900 SMP and i was trying to get

You can try the _experimental_ kernel & XFree86 3.9.16 rpm from Kostas:

ftp://idd-01.imbc.gr/pub/voodoo3

NOTE: XFree86 4.0 REQUIRES a very different /etc/X11/XF86Config file from
XFree86 3.x.  I have some different XF86Config files at:

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~phandel/linux/sample/

Also, you *may* need to change the BusID number based on what slot your
Voodoo3 is in (BusID "PCI:0:15:0" for me) if commenting it out doesn't
work.

3.9.16 runs well, although not as fast as 4.0.  I've put a comparison of
the Rage128-x86, TNT2, and Voodoo3 XF86 3.9.16 & 4.0 on my web page:

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~phandel/linux/txt/r128_tnt2_v3.txt

I believe these were all done at 1024x768 16bpp.


Thanks,
Peter

[btw- you can also copy the tdfxfb.c from 2.3.x to a 2.2.14 tree and apply
Kostas' tdfxfb patch, which is what I'm running]


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