[aclug-L] Re: Voodoo & Linux 'OpenGL' 3D Graphics

[David Carmichael <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Actually I am not for sure. I never really got into fancy 3D
> video cards much. I am not a gamer. I don't even run X on my
> Debian box and RedHat works fine with the Matrox card. But I
> did a quick look at google.com/linux and came across this:
> http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/guides/3dfx.html it may be
> of some help, I think linuxgames.com has some linux/3D info,
> also check out the XFree86.org site. Its not really so much
> the distro as which version of XFree86 it comes with. Full
> support "right out of the box" for fancy cards is pretty
> rare but with some reading and a little work you should be
> able to get it working.
>
> I just looked at linuxgames.com and it talks on the front
> page about the Voodoo cards.
>

 Randy -

I would not call the Voodoo-2 a fancy video card... it is now close to
three-to-five years old.. some of the newer video cards are what I would
call fancy! They get so hot and run so fast that they need their own cooling
fans.. The ATI-Radeon<PCI> that I picked up a few weeks ago even has its own
cooling fan and the card is basically two years old! The newer versions are
two head, dual monitor, multi-plane, DVD hardware decoding, ect...

The good side of most of these newer cards are they come with Linux
3D/OpenGL drivers (and support) out of the box......

'Oh' why I started to reply in the first place was.. I have been trying for
a number of hours to reach the web site 'Linuxlookup' from your link and
keep getting DNS errors, did a trace route and it has been failing on me
some place out west...

--David

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