Re: VooDoo + S3 968 + Linux

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From: Irish
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 00:00

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> Irish <irish@eskimo.com> wrote: > OK, I have an Obsidian Voodoo card, an S3 968 (rev0) and Linux.
> > When I try to run 3D stuff (read: Quake), it runs for a bit, then locks
> > up the entire console. I've read that the problem is because the S3 card
> > steps on the Voodoo cards memory space (bad S3!).
> >
> > How do I map the Voodoo card to a different address space so this
> > problem is avoided?
> 
> AFAIK there is a patch for Dos/Windows available (look at the Diamond webpage).
> Patch it, and then load Linux with loadlin. Maybe this should work.
> 
> Bye
> 
> Armin Kaiser

Right, I'm going to trash my entire homebrew Linux-only server to
install M$-DOS and Loadlin. No thanks. 

-- 
        Irish

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Date: 1998/10/29
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