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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.
From:       "work-djamil" <djamil () francexpress ! com>
Date:       2001-09-30 6:36:01
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hey man would you please tell me how you did that ?
...getting 3dfx and all the wrks with gentoo ...
thnx !
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe" <jjnievel@mtu.edu>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:35 AM
Subject: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.


> hey i just was to say first of all that gentoo linux is pretty sweet. 
> it's a nice middle ground for people who've only used redhat and the 
> like but want to know more about linux.
> 
> anyway the reason i'm writing is that i think there should be a guide up 
>   about how to manually compile XFree86 to use tdfx direct rendering 
> infrastructure.
> 
> as you might expect, i had to install glide, install glide-v5, decompile 
> xfree86, edit the host.def, and compile xfree86.
> 
> since i already had the xf86 source from when i emerged it, it wasn't 
> such a bad deal.  but i still had to check newsgroups and look around 
> for a couple of days before i figured out how exactly to do it.
> 
> so if you could throw something up (i'll write if up if you like :p) on 
> the webpage, i'd feel much better about it.
> 
> thanks
> 
> --joe
> 
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