[gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.

[gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.

[Joe]

hey i just was to say first of all that gentoo linux is pretty sweet. 
it's a nice middle ground for people who've only used redhat and the 
like but want to know more about linux.

anyway the reason i'm writing is that i think there should be a guide up 
  about how to manually compile XFree86 to use tdfx direct rendering 
infrastructure.

as you might expect, i had to install glide, install glide-v5, decompile 
xfree86, edit the host.def, and compile xfree86.

since i already had the xf86 source from when i emerged it, it wasn't 
such a bad deal.  but i still had to check newsgroups and look around 
for a couple of days before i figured out how exactly to do it.

so if you could throw something up (i'll write if up if you like :p) on 
the webpage, i'd feel much better about it.

thanks

--joe

Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.

[Tom von Schwerdtner]

> as you might expect, i had to install glide, install glide-v5,
> decompile  xfree86, edit the host.def, and compile xfree86.

ah, so this worked?  I havent been able to get my voodoo 3 to work and I'd 
apriciate any pointers you might have on the subject.  I havent recompiled 
X yet, which is my next step.

AFAIK (speaking out of my other end here), the main gentoo developers seem 
to be Nvidia folks, so they dont seem to give much of a hoot about tdfx or 
DRM/DRI (which is fine and makes total sense).  If you can write a 
mini-HOWTO on this, that would be great.  

3dfx may be gone, but thier cards will linger for a while....I think a 
"3dfx" USE variable might be a good idea.....so X can compile properly 
when needed and such....hell, USE settings for all the popular chipsets 
might be worthwhile.....but, yalls a busy bunch....*shrug*

-Tom

Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.

[Julien Herfurth]

Hi all,

I get a banshee working on a scratch. The kernel drivers agpgart and
tdfx are compiled as modules. I compile and install glide3, XFree4.1
(in this order) and everything works fine (hardware accelareted 3D). I
think that you don't have to modify conf files for XFree build, they
detect which version of glide you have.

PS: I don't use a scratch anymore, I use a gentoo :-)

Julien

Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.

[work-djamil]

hey man would you please tell me how you did that ?
...getting 3dfx and all the wrks with gentoo ...
thnx !
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe" <jjnievel@mtu.edu>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:35 AM
Subject: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.


> hey i just was to say first of all that gentoo linux is pretty sweet. 
> it's a nice middle ground for people who've only used redhat and the 
> like but want to know more about linux.
> 
> anyway the reason i'm writing is that i think there should be a guide up 
>   about how to manually compile XFree86 to use tdfx direct rendering 
> infrastructure.
> 
> as you might expect, i had to install glide, install glide-v5, decompile 
> xfree86, edit the host.def, and compile xfree86.
> 
> since i already had the xf86 source from when i emerged it, it wasn't 
> such a bad deal.  but i still had to check newsgroups and look around 
> for a couple of days before i figured out how exactly to do it.
> 
> so if you could throw something up (i'll write if up if you like :p) on 
> the webpage, i'd feel much better about it.
> 
> thanks
> 
> --joe
> 
> 
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