From: Tony Nugent (Tony.Nugent@usq.edu.au)
Date: Tue 02 Mar 1999 - 09:46:46 IST
On Mon Mar 01 1999 at 16:40, "Andy K. Jalics" wrote: > Dear Svgalib Enthusiasts, > I have a S3 Virge/DX (4mb) that I am quiet happy > with and that I think is fairly well supported. However, as soon as GLIDE > support is avaible for 3Dfx's Banshee (Voodoo, 3D and 2D acceleration), I > plan to buy one. An XFree server exists that seems to meet my criteria, > but I was wondering if any drivers exist in svgalib for the Banshee? I'm > almost 100% sure that there aren't, so my real question is has anybody had > any success with a Banshee and the svgalib VESA driver? I have one of these magnificant beasts in my box at home. The X server works just fine, so do svgalib apps - but not in all the very high resolution / colour-depth modes. However, I can get at least 1024x768 x 8bpp or it could have even been 16bpp (I'm not sure - is there an easy way to tell). I had tweaked my /etc/vga/libvga.config file a little for the S3ViRGE card I was using previously, and no problems using it as is with the banshee. When I get the time I'll try tweaking it some more to see what happens. The banshee can do much higher clocks than the S3V could ever do (at least double the speed). I'm just hanging out for the X server to get all the full accelleration stuff into it, and the glide/mesa library support to start happening - then I can start playing Quake2 under linux in full 3D mode (rather than having to boot to winloose to do this). Very, VERY nice card. Stunning, in fact. These new 3D cards are definitely the way of the future... Cheers Tony -=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=- Tony Nugent <Tony.Nugent@usq.edu.au> <linux@usq.edu.au> Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Science University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Oueensland Australia -=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-
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