OT: OpenBSD and Voodoo3-3500
  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
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    Posts: 68 from 2003/4/30
    From: Hessen, Germany
    Hello!

    I want to test OpenBSD 3.5 on my Pegasos-I,
    and have installed it succesfully.

    Now I want to configure X11 with my Voodoo 3-3500 graphics card, but dont know how it works.
    The xf86config - program doesnt support such a card, and with the generic 3dfx-driver I get only strange coloured output.

    Has anyone a solution?

    Greets! Boris
  • »14.06.05 - 11:43
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 347 from 2003/10/12
    From: 1 AU, EU, DE/HU
    You'll probably have nothing more than that. The "strange coloured" output is a so-called 'endian' bug: the driver tries to handle the Voodoo in 'little-endian' mode (reversed byteorder, used by Intel CPU's for eg.) while the PPC uses 'big-endian' (normal byte order).

    So it's a known flaw in X11's 3fdx driver on all platforms using big-endian byte order (incl. LinuxPPC). It needs to be fixed, but no one took the job yet. You have even luck that it works at some level: Voodoo4/Voodoo5 doesn't work at all, IIRC.
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
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    Posts: 68 from 2003/4/30
    From: Hessen, Germany
    Hello!

    So how can I get OpenBSD running with a GUI?

    A new graphics card?

    What is with the generic 3dfx-driver of an OpenBSD for MacPPC,
    or doesnt exist in this port such a driver?

    Iam a newbie in OpenBSD/Linux:
    perhaps I can run OpenBSD with KDE?

    Greets!
  • »15.06.05 - 15:19
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