[ale] A little 3dfx help please...

[Scott Nolde]

James CE Johnson wrote:
> 
> I'm having some Bad Things happen when I try out any of those whacky
> Loki games.
> 
> I recently upgraded my RedHat 6.2 to Mandrake 7.2.  The 2.2.17 kernel
> they provided was fairly evil, so I grabbed the 2.2.18 sources
> & installed it.  Other than that, everything *should* be vanilla
> Mandrake 7.2.  That means XFree86 4.0.1 with all the fixin's.
> 
> When I run test3Dfx I get the expected bright-blue screen but when I hit
> "A key" to continue it locks up the display.  Um... I've got a Voodoo
> 3000 BTW.  And that's if I'm root.  It dumps core if I try as a normal
> user.  If I try, for instance, the Heavy Gear II demo it tells me I have
> a framerate of several thousand seconds per frame.  Not good...  I'm
> assuming that means it isn't accessing the 3dfx hardware.
> 
> Any suggestions?  I've not had much luck or experience with the 3d
> stuff.
> 
> Thanks,
> J
> 

Do you have 800x600 in the XF86Config file?  It requires this
resolution, I think.

- Scott
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