I'm using Fedora Core 5 Test 2 on my desktop with a Voodoo 3 3000 agp card. /var/log/Xorg.0.log said that my 3dfx card won't work with DRI unless it was set to a 16-bit depth. I changed my DefaultDepth in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to 16 and I got this message from /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
(EE) TDFX(0): dlopen /usr/lib/dri/tdfx_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/tdfx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE) TDFX(0): unable to find driver: tdfx_dri.so
Doing "yum provides tdfx_dri.so" yields nothing for the default development repo's. It does not exist at /usr/lib/dri/tdfx_dri.so, although a bunch of other driver .so files show up there. (yum provides radeon_dri.so yields mesa-libGL as its package.)
Any ideas? Thanks for reading all of this -George Schneeloch
George Schneeloch wrote:
I'm using Fedora Core 5 Test 2 on my desktop with a Voodoo 3 3000 agp card. /var/log/Xorg.0.log said that my 3dfx card won't work with DRI unless it was set to a 16-bit depth. I changed my DefaultDepth in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to 16 and I got this message from /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
We haven't provided DRI support for tdfx in Fedora Core for several OS releases, although the tdfx_dri module may have shipped anyway. You need both tdfx_dri.so and Glide3. Glide3 was removed from the OS in FC1 or maybe even RHL 9 or so. Don't remember exactly when it was. I think it was available in Fedora Extras for a while, but I'm not sure if it is still there or not.
If someone can confirm weither tdfx_dri + Glide3 still works or not, we may be able to consider re-including the tdfx_dri.so module, however Glide3 probably wont be returning to Fedora Core. Having said that, as long as there's a volunteer to maintain it still, it could theoretically live in Extras as long as it continues to work.
Banshee and Voodoo 3 hardware only supports 3D acceleration in 16bit depth, which is why you must use 16bit depth to get 3D. The latter cards support it in 24bit depth also IIRC.