tdfx, glide, dri, powerpc?

Brian Barr barr at coastal.ufl.edu
Sat Nov 13 19:37:56 UTC 2004


Fellow listers,

I installed Ubuntu on my Old World Mac (200 Mhz 604e PowerTower Pro), 
which has a Voodoo3 PCI video card installed (no onboard chip).  (Side 
note, the install was smooth!  Once I dropped to a console from the 
installer and modprobed 'mesh' for the SCSI cdrom, and 'mace' for the 
onboard ethernet, it went without a hitch.)

Now, I would like to get hardware accelerated X working with the tdfx 
XFree86 driver.

Googling for info on the tdfx driver, it seems like the Voodoo3 card 
needs to have a module in
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri called tdfx_dri.o.   For i386, xlibmesa-dri 
provides tdfx_dri.o (along with the suggestion of libglide3).  For 
powerpc, xlibmesa-dri doesn't provide tdfx_dri.o.

Questions:
1) Is there a repository somewhere that has xlibmesa-dri with tdfx_dri 
for powerpc?

2)If not, is it possible to build xlibmesa-dri on powerpc to get tdfx 
support?  And libglide3 as well?

3) If no to the questions above, what is a good cheap PCI card that has 
support in ubuntu for powerpc?

Thanks for your time.





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