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3dfx’s JosephKain sent in word that they’ve released new DRI-based drivers for their various Voodoo chipsets:

There are new XFree86 4.0.1 X Server/Mesa prereleases for the VoodooBanshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 available. These drivers shouldbe used in conjunction with XFree86 4.0 and Glide 3 with DRI support(provided). These are the drivers that were used in thedemonstrations at 3dfx’s Linux World Expo booth. They ran games suchas Quake3, Unreal Tournament (with OpenGL renderer), Soldier ofFortune and others. Note these drivers will still not work with,Myth2, Quake2 or other Glide and Mesa2x based applications but, thethe DGA mouse bug been has been fixed. Also note, these drivers arestill in early development. At this time only a single chip on theboard is supported, that means that the board will not run at its fullspeed potential, nor are Full Scene Antialiasing (FSAA) and T-BufferCinematic effects available. As development continues these featureswill be implemented in the drivers.

Voodoo5/Voodoo4:
The files

tdfx_dri-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm
tdfx_drm-1.0-3.src.rpm
Glide_V5-3.10-2.i386.rpm

can be found here:

http://linux.3dfx.com/open_source/download/voodoo5_dri.htm

Voodoo Banshee/Voodoo3:
The files

tdfx_dri-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm
tdfx_drm-1.0-3.src.rpm
Glide_V3-DRI-3.10-6.i386.rpm

can be found here:

http://linux.3dfx.com/open_source/download/voodoo3_banshee_dri.htm

Changes:

• Based on XFree86 4.0.1
• DGA mouse support
• No longer overwrites /etc/X11/XF86Config, however previous packages were setup to restore the saved backup of /etc/X11/XF86Config so you may want to backup the file manually before installing this package.

Please follow the instructions on the above pages to install thesepackages.
If you experience any difficulty installing any of these driver pleasedirect your questions to the USENET newsgroup 3dfx.glide.linux.
Again note that this release does NOT work with Glide applications orApplications that are linked against older revisions of Mesa.

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