Libranet Debian and 3DFX Cards

[Unruly]

Hey

I've got a 3DFX Voodoo^2 and I'd like to be using it in debian, but, the 3dfx website doesn't mention much about debian packages. So, before I go and alien some rpm files, I wanna make sure that what I'm doing is the right thing.

After that, I'm gonna get quake3 installed, hopefully

pleeeeease help!

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[Unruly]

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[Unruly]

hewwo?

[mandeep]

Originally posted by Unruly:
Hey


I've got a 3DFX Voodoo^2 -


After that, I'm gonna get quake3 installed, hopefully





Quake III on a Voodoo 2?

[Unruly]

Originally posted by mandeep:

Quake III on a Voodoo 2?

Yup -- and now my problem has changed... I got my 3d card WORKING, but now a normal user has no permissions to run the 3dfx tests -- I've chmodded them to 777 so that EVERYONE can use them, but still no luck... I know i've seen this around the fourms before, but while I search, could someone possibly point something out to me if I turn up empty handed?

[Sweede]

again, Quake III on a VooDoo2
do you have a pair in SSi mode ??

my TNT 1 chip is more powerfull than the voodoo2.

[Unruly]

Originally posted by Sweede:
again, Quake III on a VooDoo2
do you have a pair in SSi mode ??

my TNT 1 chip is more powerfull than the voodoo2.
Yes, get over it, I am RUNNING A VOODOO2 in quake 3 -- it WORKS it plays decently, and it suits me fine... now... are we going to stand around all day and play dumb, or help?

[skweegie]

hey unruly,

hehe, v2 still has its place, if it works why criticize ? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

anywyas, to get nonroot to get @ the card, you HAVE to install the Device3dfx module into the kernel.

i'm not sure how the rpm does it since i compiled the source myself and modprobed 3dfx directly but changing permissions is not the way to do it....

cheers

[Unruly]

Originally posted by skweegie:
hey unruly,

hehe, v2 still has its place, if it works why criticize ? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

anywyas, to get nonroot to get @ the card, you HAVE to install the Device3dfx module into the kernel.

i'm not sure how the rpm does it since i compiled the source myself and modprobed 3dfx directly but changing permissions is not the way to do it....

cheers
you mean you downloaded the stuff and just compiled it out of the tar.gz's?? hmmmmmm....interesting....

[Unruly]

Originally posted by skweegie:
hey unruly,

hehe, v2 still has its place, if it works why criticize ? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

anywyas, to get nonroot to get @ the card, you HAVE to install the Device3dfx module into the kernel.

i'm not sure how the rpm does it since i compiled the source myself and modprobed 3dfx directly but changing permissions is not the way to do it....

cheers

you mean by doing an apt-get install device3dfx? and then using the device3dfx.tar.gz that apears in /usr/src?

[skweegie]

heyas unruly,

i use slack so i did use the Device3dfx slackpack. all that did was unpack the source into /usr/src like you said above. you still have to go into /usr/src/Device3dfx as root and compile the module.

1) :/usr/src/Device3Dfx$ make
2) :/usr/src/Device3Dfx$ make install

this will compile the module and set up the alias "3dfx". now add the line:
/sbin/modprobe 3dfx
into your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules so the next time you reboot, the module will load and all users will be able to use the device...

if you don't want to reboot, you can also just:
modprobe 3dfx
after you make install and it will result in the same desired effect.

cheers