RedHat-9 and 3DFX

[Raoul_Duke]

Grrr......i've just read somewhere that Redhat have stopped support for 3dfx cards in RH9. I can't remember where i read it now and the RH site doesn't appear to say anything.

Anyone know if this is true......i was gonna install RH9 on a spare partition until i heard about this :(

Would be interesting to know why the've done this too........i know my voodoo3 card ain't exactly state of the art but there's a lot of 3dfx cards out there. Seems an odd move for a linux distro to break compatiblity with a whole range of cards.....???

Any thoughts?

:)

(edit) I've also read that the kernel breaks compatibilty with Nvidia modules too..............Methinks RedHat don't like games ;) :(

[mdwatts]

Is Redhat 9.0 including X4.3 or X4.2.1?

From www.xfree86.org


3Dfx

3.3.6:

Support (including acceleration) for Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 cards is provided by the XF86_SVGA server with the tdfx driver.
4.3.0:

Support for Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 chips is provided by the "glide" driver (this requires version 2.x of the Glide library, which is not part of the XFree86 distribution).

Support (including acceleration) for Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo4, and Voodoo5 is provided by the "tdfx" driver.
Summary:

All hardware supported in 3.3.6 is also supported in 4.3.0. The Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo2, Voodoo4, and Voodoo5 are supported only in 4.3.0.