DRI and Voodoo3 finally working - here's how

[id10t]

I got it working for a Voodoo3/X 4.2/DRI

1) export USE="-3dfx -voodoo3"
2) emerge xfree
3) export USE="3dfx voodoo3" - and make sure it is in your default USE
3) emerge glide-v3
4) emerge xfree
5) mv /usr/lib/libglide3.la foo
6) emerge mesa-glu
7) emerge mesa
get the "todays binary" from dri.sourceforge.net & install it with the built in install script
9) emerge mesa

glxinfo now reports that it is using dri and opengl.

Here's the part that sucks -

Before I had dri working, i was getting 105 fps on glxgears on the first 5 seconds, and 120 fps on the remainder. This is on a dual p2-450 with a stage 1 gentoo install and a Voodoo3.

Now that DRI works, I get a whopping 76fps. in glxgears. Haven't installed UT or Q3 to test with, but if it is this much slower there as well, it will be back to X3.3.x with Mesa/Glide2/Glide3 on top of it. That or I'm gonna buy a new video card.
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