@ Franklin
I get what your trying to say... but Ive used DOS all my life
so when i switched to linux suse at least i understood how to use bash i mean ls and dir/w rm and del are then same so it was easy for me to adapt then i got used to suse but i was sick of buying there distros at huge prices ... so now im trying slackware
and theres noticeible changes ... lol I dont even know where i am I know how to compile programs etc but the system configureation is a little bit differnt ....and I wanna aplogize for being ignorent I usally very clam about these things.

@ lupin_the_3rd

Yes It does under DRI my 3D FX Voodoo 3 3000 (AGP) does work but only in 16 bit because it only has true 16bit mode the 24, and 32 are emulated and are not supported.

My Nvidia card displayed the same behavior until I switched to the Nvidia drivers from Nvidia rather than the stock XFree drivers... i

3DFX is no longer in bussness so I don't think they would support new drivers since Glide went open source.

I'm surprised anybody can reply to the original thread. It's hard when you have to translate English into English. Maybe the educational system, in their quest to make everybody happy, has deemed this sort of mix and match of words, missing apostrophes in contractions, misspellings, and misplaced ellipsis to be acceptable.

Sorry, but somebody has to try and keep effective communications going in a public forum like this.

Here's another example:


And I really don't think I am being pedantic here. I don't necessarily call for strict adherence to the rules, just some adherence.




Man, where's my caffeine?

Your card should be supported as it should use the 3dfx drivers or are they called voodoo... that come with XFree86.. It was supported in Slackware 8.0 and up... so I'm sure the support is still there in the latest version.

I know it is because the module is called tdfx.o.

@ itsjustme
Sorry I generally don't read my own posts to see if they make sense or check for grammar ..lol you should see my coding can you say spaghetti?

Correct me if I am wrong, but as long as Free X86 Supports and DRI supports the hardware shouldn't it run under any distro? I mean it's not in the disto's hands to say witch cards are supported .. the kernel has some say but then there are modules that can be loaded to add support to the kernel if it doesn't support the device itself, so it really depends on FreeX86 and DRI doesn't it ?

Yes, if you have a)right kernel module compiled (or driver compiled into the kernel) b) XFree part of the driver
The thing is that the default kernel may have the drivers or not (usually it has, if it's popular hardware). Plus, there are drivers released under different licences, what may cause the driver not be included into the kernel tree and distros.

My cats breath smells like cat food

OK....I've read and kept my mouth silent.
With some restraint I offer this bit of advice....
I used to work in the R&D team of a major video hardware manufacturer <won't plug anyone>. No I didn't get fired, I retired 2 years ago, so think of another way to insult me when I'm done.

A team of 3 people (1 hardware engineer, 2 software engineers) took over 20 months to produce a win32 driver compatible with the 32 bit NT kernel. Mind you, the OS was already written, and documented. We also used assembly language, C++ with prebuilt win32 modules, C, even VB was used for the Install GUI.

This was not the first project of this type that this group undertook. So if a small group of highly experienced individuals needs over a year to produce just the DRIVER.......well you fill in the rest

Lol... indeed, creating an OS is easier then fix a little problem in an already finished one. This is really, really funny...