[Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.]

[Joe]

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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc.
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 02:17:01 -0400
From: Joe <jjnievel@×××.edu>
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Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
 > I think a "3dfx" USE variable might be a good idea.....so X
 > can compile properly when needed and such

yes; it doesn't seem that it would be too difficult.  I'm not sure if it
is necessarily a Gentoo thing though.  Even when i had the glide3 libs
installed, XF86 did not create the tdfx.so that it needed.  The host.def
file initially has a preprocessor-ish #if block around the #define for
the HASGLIDE.  It seems that this may have been the culprit, unless
emerging xfree didn't utilize the host.def at all.  Anyway, it does
sorta seem like something is amiss, and all that should be really needed
(ideally) is a little blurb in the installation guide: "before you
install xfree, install glide if you have a glide video card" or
something like that.  In any case, I believe this mini-howto should
contain sufficient information for setting everything up.  As it points
out, however, I do have a Voodoo4, so it might be a little different.
Notably, you might want to look for special options when you compile
glide.  With that I will tell you good luck, and make sure to let me
know how it turns out.

--joe