A.Joshi: What is the status of Voodoo3 drivers?

A.Joshi: What is the status of Voodoo3 drivers?

[Michael Greer]

I noticed your response a month ago to a query of mine about possible
Voodoo3 drivers, now that many Mac users will be flocking. Has there
been any progress? I want to thank you for working on this, for I would
love to have a zippy LinuxPPC box with my V3.
    thanks you,
    Michael Greer
mgreer@sirius.com


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Re: A.Joshi: What is the status of Voodoo3 drivers?

[Ani Joshi]

	unfortunately not :(   we were supposed to recieve a voodoo3 from
MacTell but they went out of business, do you or anyone else know of a
place that sells Mac PCI voodoo3's?  i'd imagine the "mac" version is
different then the pc one, with an of driver orsomething...



ani



On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Michael Greer wrote:

> 
> I noticed your response a month ago to a query of mine about possible
> Voodoo3 drivers, now that many Mac users will be flocking. Has there
> been any progress? I want to thank you for working on this, for I would
> love to have a zippy LinuxPPC box with my V3.
>     thanks you,
>     Michael Greer
> mgreer@sirius.com
> 
> 


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Re: A.Joshi: What is the status of Voodoo3 drivers?

[Dan Bethe]

--- Ani Joshi <ajoshi@shell.unixbox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	unfortunately not :(   we were supposed to recieve
> a voodoo3 from
> MacTell but they went out of business, do you or
> anyone else know of a
> place that sells Mac PCI voodoo3's?  i'd imagine the
> "mac" version is
> different then the pc one, with an of driver
> orsomething...

	I know that a gentlemen on this list is the author of
a small real-mode x86 emulator designed for emulating
x86 BIOS code found on PCI cards, so that they can run
on LinuxPPC.
	I'm not sure if that's applicable to this situation! 
It's called "EM86".  Try the following search:

http://lists.linuxppc.org/cgi-bin/wilma/wilma_glimpse/linuxppc-dev?query=x86+emu&partial=on&errors=0&maxfiles=50&maxlines=10&.cgifields=lineonly&.cgifields=filelist&.cgifields=case&.cgifields=partial&.cgifields=restricttofiles

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Re: A.Joshi: What is the status of Voodoo3 drivers?

[Patrik Jonsson]

>	unfortunately not :(   we were supposed to recieve a voodoo3 from
>MacTell but they went out of business, do you or anyone else know of a
>place that sells Mac PCI voodoo3's?  i'd imagine the "mac" version is
>different then the pc one, with an of driver orsomething...

Hi,
3dfx has drivers on their page, including a rom image so you can flash a pc
card with OF firmware. They just released an OpenGL driver as well, they
are pretty good for calling it "unsupported"...
Anyway, that should contain what you want, so you can just buy a pc pci V3
card for <$100 and flash it. (That's what all the Mac folks that use V3
cards have done.)

I would also LOVE to have a V3 driver!

Hope that helps,

	/Patrik

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Re: A.Joshi: What is the status of Voodoo3 drivers?

[Justin McKillican]

>> 
>>  unfortunately not :(   we were supposed to recieve
>> a voodoo3 from
>> MacTell but they went out of business, do you or
>> anyone else know of a
>> place that sells Mac PCI voodoo3's?  i'd imagine the
>> "mac" version is
>> different then the pc one, with an of driver
>> orsomething...
>
>  I know that a gentlemen on this list is the author of
> a small real-mode x86 emulator designed for emulating
> x86 BIOS code found on PCI cards, so that they can run
> on LinuxPPC.
>  I'm not sure if that's applicable to this situation!
> It's called "EM86".  Try the following search:

You can use any PCI Voodoo3 card on a mac with the voodoo3 drivers from
3dfx.com itself.  you just need to flash the bios/ROM on the v3 card first
tho.


justin

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