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I had this problem with my voodoo2's. What I had to do was recompile Mesa
and Glide. When you install Glide, there are some demos that it installs
to test out Glide. Run these, and if they work, you know that Glide
works.
Next, these programs are probably using Mesa's software renderer. What
you need to do is find the 3dfx Mesa library you compiled (or got from an
RPM or something), and copy it into the game directory. The games will
then use 3Dfx's OpenGL instead of software.
Another option would be to make sure you have the 3Dfx DRI modules running
in X. I've not had any experience with this, so you're on your own here
unless someone else here has any ideas.
If you have any other questions, you can probably find a lot of them
answered at http://www.linux3d.net
Tim
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Sten Turpin wrote:
> Ok, one more gripe I've got with my PC, then I'm going to bed =). I've got a
> 1.1GHz t-bird, 256MB RAM and a Voodoo3 3500TV AGP card. I downloaded demos for
> terminus, Shogo and Q3. When I try running them, saying they move slowly is an
> understatement. I'm getting maybe 3 frames per minute in Q3. Am I missing
> something? Are there special drivers I need? Since 3dfx is mostly dead, finding
> their stuff is hard, but I got some drivers for the voodoo3 off of
> voodoolinux.com or something like that; installing those didn't help any. Is
> there a howto somewhere. BTW, this is on SuSE 7.0, running XFree 4.0
>
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