Yeah, the V2 is not a VGA card, but:
1. My existing S3trio/GX is running with fbdev, and 60 hz isn't pretty.


2.My Voodoo2 has been lying around for a long time, and I do remember
using it 1024x768@85 for some gaming under win98, years ago.


3.My desktop's running a GF2-MX, and it's doing a pretty good job in linux
as well as windows games.


4. If I put the Voodoo2 in my desktop, the pass-through degrades the video
signal (1280x1024@90)

If anyone has done this, preferably with 9.1, I'd like to hear about it.


thanks
-joseph

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:31:57 -0400, joseph philip wrote:

> If anyone has done this, preferably with 9.1, I'd like to hear about it.

I did it years ago with an 8.*.

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"joseph philip" <joseph@nntp.will.suffice> wrote in message
newsan.2004.04.19.18.31.56.886883@nntp.will.suff ice...
> Yeah, the V2 is not a VGA card, but:
> 1. My existing S3trio/GX is running with fbdev, and 60 hz isn't pretty.
>
>
> 2.My Voodoo2 has been lying around for a long time, and I do remember
> using it 1024x768@85 for some gaming under win98, years ago.
>
>
> 3.My desktop's running a GF2-MX, and it's doing a pretty good job in linux
> as well as windows games.
>
>
> 4. If I put the Voodoo2 in my desktop, the pass-through degrades the video
> signal (1280x1024@90)
>
> If anyone has done this, preferably with 9.1, I'd like to hear about it.
>
>
> thanks
> -joseph
>

I did it with a Banshee, which I think is probably the lowest real voodoo
vga card available. I do believe it was released before the V2, though, so
perhaps the TDFX module would support. Not entirely sure. You've given me
something to go hunt down and remember my old Monster V1 pass-thru (Not so
fondly, except when I saw the trails follow the rockets in GL Quake!!! Wow.
And the explosions were SO pretty)

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:58:41 +0000, J McK wrote:

>
> "joseph philip" <joseph@nntp.will.suffice> wrote in message
> newsan.2004.04.19.18.31.56.886883@nntp.will.suff ice...
>> Yeah, the V2 is not a VGA card, but:
>> 1. My existing S3trio/GX is running with fbdev, and 60 hz isn't pretty.
>>
>>
>> 2.My Voodoo2 has been lying around for a long time, and I do remember
>> using it 1024x768@85 for some gaming under win98, years ago.
>>
>>
>> 3.My desktop's running a GF2-MX, and it's doing a pretty good job in linux
>> as well as windows games.
>>
>>
>> 4. If I put the Voodoo2 in my desktop, the pass-through degrades the video
>> signal (1280x1024@90)
>>
>> If anyone has done this, preferably with 9.1, I'd like to hear about it.
>>
>>
>> thanks
>> -joseph
>>
>
> I did it with a Banshee, which I think is probably the lowest real voodoo
> vga card available. I do believe it was released before the V2, though, so
> perhaps the TDFX module would support. Not entirely sure. You've given me
> something to go hunt down and remember my old Monster V1 pass-thru (Not so
> fondly, except when I saw the trails follow the rockets in GL Quake!!! Wow.
> And the explosions were SO pretty)


The tdfx driver is for video cards with 3dfx chipsets which have a VGA
BIOS on board. The V1 and V2 cards do not have a vga bios. I'm thinking in
the following line:

The glide api allows an application to specify things to draw by the v2,
such as rectangles, circles etc. So X could in theory use a driver that
handles the V2 via glide to do its drawings...

I've been hitting problems gettting X to use the Voodoo2 for X stuff...

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:55:34 -0400, joseph philip wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:58:41 +0000, J McK wrote:
>> "joseph philip" <joseph@nntp.will.suffice> wrote:

>>> Yeah, the V2 is not a VGA card, but:
>>> 1. My existing S3trio/GX is running with fbdev, and 60 hz isn't pretty.

Yeah, those cards aren't to fantastic. Version 3.3.6 of the XFree86 server
generally did a better job with those then v4.3.x (so, should you be using
the latter: you might want to try downgrading.)

>>> 2.My Voodoo2 has been lying around for a long time, and I do remember
>>> using it 1024x768@85 for some gaming under win98, years ago.

But that is only with 3d stuff?

>>> 3.My desktop's running a GF2-MX, and it's doing a pretty good job in linux
>>> as well as windows games.
>>>
>>> 4. If I put the Voodoo2 in my desktop, the pass-through degrades the video
>>> signal (1280x1024@90)

Then don't connect the pass-through cable. As Mesa can draw 3d stuff in an
X window, utilizing the hardware accell of the Voodoo cart (via Glide).

>>> If anyone has done this, preferably with 9.1, I'd like to hear about it.

I did the above (with first Voodoo board). The how-to document:
http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/xf3D/h...Dfx-HOWTO.html

>> I did it with a Banshee, which I think is probably the lowest real voodoo
>> vga card available.

No. That would be the Voodoo Rush.

>> I do believe it was released before the V2,

Incorrect. the Bungee is (more or less) a Voodoo2 with VGA support.
(Whereas the Rush is basically a Voodoo1 with VGA.)

[ Snip, tdfx stuff. ]

> The glide api allows an application to specify things to draw by the v2,
> such as rectangles, circles etc. So X could in theory use a driver that
> handles the V2 via glide to do its drawings...
>
> I've been hitting problems gettting X to use the Voodoo2 for X stuff...

Try XGGI:
http://www.ggi-project.org/packages/xggi.html

( It's reported to work with Glide, for displaying X windows ... )

Have fun.

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