[svlug] Linux and 3dfx

[Jose Sanchez]

I got a Voodoo3 on my box and so far it is doing fine with RH7 although when 
I was using Caldera I was having tons of problems because of the vcard.


>From: Terrio Echavez <malaya at pacbell.net>
>To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
>Subject: [svlug] Linux and 3dfx
>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:19:49 -0800
>
>Hello,
>
>At home, I got a SuSE Linux 7.0 desktop (Abit dual-processor pci 
>motherboard with dual Intel PIII 733 mhz,
>256mb ram, 20 gig DMA66 hard drive and 6 gig DMA33 hard drive, 3dfx Voodoo 
>3500 16mb video ram, Creative Labs
>Ensoniq 1371 pci sound card, and a Viewsonic 14ES monitor).  Anyway, after 
>two days of tweaking with the SuSE
>3dfx drivers, I have successfully installed the Linux versions of Quake3 
>Arena, Heretic 2, Unreal Tournament
>(Game of the Year Edition) Doom I, Doom II, Tux Racer, and SDL Heretic.  
>With Doom I, Doom II, and SDL
>Heretic, everything plays nicely and normally (I guess because these games 
>don't use the 3dfx drivers).
>However, with Quake3, Heretic 2, Unreal Tournament, and Tux Racer - the 
>games play beautifully; however, when
>exiting to the KDE desktop I return to a mess of camouflaged colors and 
>have no choice but to press
>[Ctrl][Alt][BackSpace] which kicks me out to the KDM log on screen.  Also, 
>what's interesting, is when I
>start Tux Racer, a small to large 3dfx logo flashes on the screen just 
>before the Tux Racer options are
>displayed.
>
>As far as the video drivers, I cannot get 3dfx to work at all with the 
>default Voodoo3 or Voodoo3 3500 from
>the 3dfx-SVGA XF86Setup drivers.  However, when using the SuSE combined 
>Voodoo-Banshee driver (in safe as
>opposed to secure mode) and specifying 16mb of video ram, the Device3dfx 
>driver works the way as described
>above (i.e., everything plays wonderfully but [Ctrl][Alt][BackSpace] to 
>exit to the KDM log on screen).  For
>drivers I use Device3dfx, mesa3dfx, glidevg (voodoo graphics), glidesdk, 
>and glidev3  (Voodoo3) using rpm
>-Uvh --force ...  On the otherhand, Xscreensaver works flawlessly with no 
>funky errors messages appearing
>anywhere.  Oh well, maybe I have nothing to complain about.  But if anyone 
>else having experience with 3dfx
>and Linux where your exits for the 3dfx games land you back to the desktop 
>as oppossed to the log-on screen,
>I would love to hear your experiences.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Terrio Echavez
>
>
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