Voodoo 5500 and Mandrake 7.2

Anyone else having a hard time getting HardDrake to run with this video card...

I keep getting dropped to a totally black screen, with a cursor... I can type around and it echoes what I type back to me, but nothing really seems to happen... I can log back in and kill harddrake and my system seems fine after that.

I have a VIA chipset, which seems to have some problems with Linux anyways... but other than this Harddrake problem (and a sound problem, but whatever) everything seems to be fine.

Any suggestions?

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http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~gallardo
http://members.xoom.com/phantomaradio

I think this is one for DaveB3D. https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2005/06/4.gif

However, let me ask you: are you using a framebuffer driver or what???

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Originally posted by non_interleaved:
Anyone else having a hard time getting HardDrake to run with this video card...

I keep getting dropped to a totally black screen, with a cursor... I can type around and it echoes what I type back to me, but nothing really seems to happen... I can log back in and kill harddrake and my system seems fine after that.

I have a VIA chipset, which seems to have some problems with Linux anyways... but other than this Harddrake problem (and a sound problem, but whatever) everything seems to be fine.

Any suggestions?

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Al Gore: "I'm a really big fan!"

Courtney Love: "Yeah, right. Name a song, Al."

Al Gore: "I can't name a song, I'm just a really big fan."

I am using the driver that came with Mandrake... in other words I have not changed it at all...

Should I use the one on linux.3dfx.com? I am not really interested in gaming on linux (lets be honest, gaming on linux sucks *** compared to windows)... rather I would just like to be able to run harddrake without it crashing.



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http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~gallardo
http://members.xoom.com/phantomaradio

Well, you had better grab the driver soon since 3dfx is no more... http://dev.www.sharkyforums.forums.relay.cool/

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Originally posted by non_interleaved:
I am using the driver that came with Mandrake... in other words I have not changed it at all...

Should I use the one on linux.3dfx.com? I am not really interested in gaming on linux (lets be honest, gaming on linux sucks *** compared to windows)... rather I would just like to be able to run harddrake without it crashing.

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Al Gore: "I'm a really big fan!"

Courtney Love: "Yeah, right. Name a song, Al."

Al Gore: "I can't name a song, I'm just a really big fan."