3dfx fanboys UNITE!

mondauge · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:47 am Post subject:

Ah.. I worked for 3 months in a shoe-store to afford my first-ever 3D accelerator card: A voodoo2 with 12 MB

Guys.. this card was sweet.. I loved it and it is still working perfectly in my sister's PC.
It is really a pity, that 3Dfx didn't make it. The GLIDE interface was just beautiful.. easy to understand, lightning fast and created images beyond imagination.. at least to the graphic standards back in these days.

I miss it

nephros · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject:

Lonely-Star · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 82

Hi everbody,
Hearing you all talk about voodoo graphic cards I wondered:
I have an 200Mhz PC and Voodoo1 Graphic card.
Is it possible to get the Voodoo 1 to run under Linux?
And than, how do I use the 3d acceleration? Can I use OpenGL with it? Or, which kind of applications can make use of it?
Thanks!

mijenix · Guru Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 380 Location: Switzerland

Hi 3Dfx fans!

I had a Diamond Voodoo1 then a Voodoo2 and now in my Gentoo-Server-Box works a 3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 and she still work. I think 3Dfx was good graphiccards!

--Mathias

gentoo_dude · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:24 am Post subject:

Hi,
I have a voodoo 5 5500 64 MB on a pentium II deschutes 450 mhz, 256 MB SDRAM. Still learning how to get the drm working under linux. Got it up to 800 fps.
Any insight more than welcome.

sdaffis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 99

Man, has this thread grown since I last checked it!

gentoo_dude, have you got drm working? If not, please reply

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Kai Hvatum · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject:

If you're having problems with your voodoo card then I've got a site that has all solutions to any problem you might be having. It'll get your linux video working smooth like butter... ALL SOLUTIONS
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macmac · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 1

Hi everyone,
my First Voodoo was a Voodoo2, which was great at that time.
Therefore i bought this Voodoo3 which is great also, it did its job very good for many years.
Right now its in my "Router/Server/..." PC which is running 24/7 and I'm trying to get its TV-Out to wort because I want to use it as a VideoPlayer.
There is no Monitor on It, but a TV.

Now I got that strange Problem with this Voodoo3 3000.
Probably its just a stupid fault of me, but let's start...

I installed this tool nvtv (the 0.4.5 version, gentoo portage tree) and it worked fine (exept 4 just black and white).

But then, i needed to reboot (maybe i messed sth up with the kernel before?) and i bought a converter to get some color...
now, i started the thing again, but from now, it coultnt find the Tv Encoder Chip.
I get the following Errormessages:

root@dreadlock root # nvtv -t -C Convert -r 800,600 -s Large
Defaulting to PAL TV system.
Null chip: create
Null chip: Init
Cannot find 'Large' mode 800 x 600
Please specify as e.g. -r 800,600 -s Large

now the probe output:
root@dreadlock root # nvtv -P
NVTV 0.4.5 Probe
Voodoo3 (01:00.00) (0005) io=0xDE000000
Null chip: create
Null chip: Init
miscInit0 (0x10)=00000000 tv_blank=0 tv_sync=0
miscInit1 (0x14)=0F008001 rom=0
tmuGbeInit (0x24)=00000FF0 inv=0 dly=0
vgaInit0 (0x28)=00001344 ext=0
vgaInit1 (0x2c)=00000000 lock=000
vidProcCfg (0x5c)=08040083 en=1 half=0 2x=0
vidInFormat (0x70)=00000160
vidSerParPort (0x78)=CF980020
vidScreenSize (0x98)=00000000 w=0 h=0
CRT registers
00: FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
10: FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
20: FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF

I2C Devices: 0:A0

I googled for a while and read and read, i really dont know what this could be...
I use a 2.6.9 gentoo kernel.
I tried it without the converter too, no difference, btw.

Maybe one of you Voodoo-Fans got a solution?

thanks in advance,

marc

Dr Gonzo · Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject:

TrueDFX · Developer Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 1348

I still have a Velocity 100 lying around. When I got it, I was so happy with my 8MB card that could play a lot of games that had 16MB video memory as part of their system requirements. I don't know if that was because of the card or because of the PC, though. Anyway, it ran fine in Gentoo as well. Right now my PC has an Ati card stuck in it, though, because I wanted to see if I could get anything displayed on my TV.

[sinz] · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 71

Currently using a 3dfx voodoo 3 3500 AGP TV in this box but I'm planning on swapping my old geforce3 in as I replaced that one in my Win (:X) box with a 6800.