3dfx Voodoo3/Banshee accelerated driver

[Ani Joshi]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Henning Loeser wrote:

> I gave the new 4.0.1 and your xfree86 tree a try. I included the tdfx
> driver in the xfree86.cf file and everything compiled and installed
> nicely. So I decided to send you a quick testreport.
> The driver unfortunately only seems to run in 8bit color. 16bit starts but
> the screen looks very wierd, colors all off ... 24 and 32 bit color modes
> are reported beeing unsupported at the moment. There is also a problem
> with scrolling in windows, no matter which I tried, netscape, a terminal,
> lines of text get clobbed or are not displayed at all. Other that that
> the Server is nice and pretty fast (compared to fbdev...).

The screen artifacts bug is fixed.  Only problem remaining is 24bpp.


ani


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