Subject: Re: Voodoo 1 & Glide (i386) ?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Jarkko Hermanni Teppo <jate@UWasa.Fi>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/14/2000 15:32:40
Quoting Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>:

> According to Jarkko Hermanni Teppo:
> >
> >I just got a 3Dfx Voodoo 1 card for my pentium crash & burn machine.
> >Are there any glide drivers available and if not, can I use the
> >Linux emulation to use the linux drivers ? I\\\'d just like to get
> >glQuake working:) and there\\\'s no way I\\\'ll install linux just for
> quake...
> >
> 
> You may want to check out this link:
> 
> http://www.cybernet.com/~mtaylor/q3ahowto.html
> 
> 
> I know it is for freebsd but if you do some translation like using
> /emul/linux instead of /compat/linux then you will be able to get the
> linux gl libraries installed.  You should then be able to play the
> linux glquake.  I have not tried glquake but I was able to get the
> Quake 3 Arena demo working which meant the GL stuff worked :-)  Note
> that you will probably have to be root to run glquake as the drivers
> will want to perform i/o using privileged instructions.
> 
> A voodoo driver _may_ be forthcoming sometime...

Whoohoo, it works!

Brief description follows: pentium machine with Voodoo 1 and ESS soundcard.
I tried SuSE briefly, got frustrated, compiled Quake 1 from sources (on Linux),
installed 1.4.2, got compat_linux from pkgsrc, untarred svgalib, glide and mesa
stuff to /emul/linux/usr/lib and svgalib config files to /emul/linux/etc. 
Tried test3Dfx (from Glide) and it worked OK. Tried GLQuake, crashed with
\"couldn\'t open /proc/mem/blaablaa\". Added /proc to fstab and now it works, 
even sound!

Thanks a lot for a great system! 
Has anyone looked at porting Glide to NetBSD ?

If anyone would be wantink any binaries just drop me an email.

-- 
Jarkko Teppo
jate@uwasa.fi