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3dfx Voodoo3
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9 42738 08-07-2005
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89% of reviewers $89.63 8.9



Description: Old 16MB 3dfx card. I miss 3dfx...

Anyway, when they included support for a lot of older 3d cards in the XFree drivers in 4.3.0, this one started behaving badly. I went with a rollback to 4.2.1, but later just cheated and copied the 4.2.1 drivers into 4.3.0 and it works... I've got it on a dual-head system with an old ATI rage 128, so I haven't used DRI in a while, but the extra mplayer drivers specifically for these cards rock!

This makes an excellent PCI 2nd or 3rd head card if you want to play with xinerama.
Keywords: voodoo 3dfx tdfx
/sbin/lspci output: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01)
Chipset: voodoo3
Connection Type: PCI


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Old 11-05-2003, 11:30 AM   #1
trickykid
 
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,128

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $99.95 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.x and 2.2.x series
Distribution: Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake, TurboLinux, Debian



This was an excellent card. Back in the days I actually paid more than $50.00 bucks for a video card since I'm not a big gamer, I did like the 3dfx cards in which I'm still using mine in one of my systems.

Never had any problems getting this card to work in the mentioned distributions and among others I didn't mention.
 
Old 02-27-2004, 03:18 PM   #2
elitecodex
 
Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: Fedora 9
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.22
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2


Works great... Just choose the right adapter in the install and all has been perfect.

The price is skewed because I got it from a friend for free.
 
Old 03-27-2004, 01:08 AM   #3
JrLz
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 164

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.x
Distribution: Slackware ,Red Hat,Debian, Mandrake


hey , a cool card for coders , text reader and small gamers (not for crazy gamers)

I can find its driver on almost every distros i've tried

not bad, just set the resolution and other settings right

and you will find it working
 
Old 03-28-2004, 08:14 PM   #4
tmillard
 
Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Gentoo
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6
Distribution: Fedora Core 2


This card works good with linux, however I had to set the color to 16 bit, nothing else.
 
Old 05-25-2004, 09:00 AM   #5
jdc2048
 
Registered: Jul 2002
Distribution: Redhat, Gentoo, Solaris, HP-UX, etc...
Posts: 391

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $69.95 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.5-1.358
Distribution: Fedora Core 2


I have not had any problems with this card using basic Linux stuff in the past. But now with the major changes that FC2 has put out, I am reduced to a measily 800x600 resolution with much headaches. It may be capable of more and I am just missing the setting/config file that I need to make it happen. I have never had to tweak anything in the past though.

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Doh!, this issue was not related to the card. It was the Monitor that FC2 said was only capable of 800x600. I changed monitor settings and viola! I am back at 1280x1024 again. Apparently the Gateway EV700 was auto-detected, but the settings for the monitor only allow 800x600.
 
Old 01-14-2005, 03:39 AM   #6
JrLz
 
Registered: Mar 2004
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.26
Distribution: slackware 10


works great for many distros I've tried like RedHat, Mandrake,slackware,debian
 
Old 01-16-2005, 11:40 AM   #7
ticiajosep
 
Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Mandrakelinux
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8.1-12mdk
Distribution: Mandrakelinux 9.0 to 10.1


Works fine.
800 x 600 with 16 for 3D.
 
Old 02-01-2005, 05:35 PM   #8
hinkipunk
 
Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Fedora Core 3
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.9-1.667
Distribution: Fedora Core 3


This card works mostly ok, however on playback of DVD's or on the Television the right hand side of the screen is usually replicated vertically several times. problem fixes if you reduce screen size, or actually push a portion of the image off screen. The problem seems to happen no matter what driver is used. Crazy uh!?
 
Old 08-07-2005, 10:26 PM   #9
tdking19
 
Registered: Sep 2004
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 16

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $99.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10
Distribution: Slackware


Everything works perfect except no linux drivers for the OpenGL support of the card. (aka no good screen savers or Cedega)
 




  



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