slackware 11 and 3dfx voodoo 5500

sparkus · 03-27-2007, 06:06 AM

Hi !

I use a old 3dfx Voodoo5500 card and I don't find the driver.

Thank you to help me.

arfon · 03-27-2007, 07:05 AM

Don't use SLACKWARE in your Google searches for drivers. You are actually looking for Xorg drivers.

Take a look at these places:

http://www.voodoofiles.com/3dfxhelp.asp
http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/vood...oodoo45/linux/

In the end, my guess is that you aren't going to find the drivers. That card is probably not supported anymore by X developers.

I'd upgrade your card. Nividia has pretty good driver support for linux.

Gethyn · 03-27-2007, 07:26 AM

Actually, 3dfx are some of the best supported 3D graphics cards under Linux. There is a kernel module for 3dfx cards, which is called tdfx. As it's part of the kernel you should already have it installed. Just check your xorg.conf to make sure you're using it rather than the vga/vesa driver. According to this page it supports the Voodoo 5.

Woodsman · 03-27-2007, 06:21 PM

Quote:

I use a old 3dfx Voodoo5500 card and I don't find the driver.

Try this:

http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub...ra/3dfx-glide/

I have an older Voodoo Banshee in my test box. The files were dropped from /extra in version 11.0.