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

[Joe <jjnievel@mtu.edu>]

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