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Sorry, that's 6.1. Too many boxes...
"Joel A. Matz" wrote:
>
> OK, I have a V3 2000 AGP on Redhat 6.0, all the drivers installed, run
> the 3DFX tests fine, had Q2 & Q3 test going fine, but UT consistently
> seg faults/ core dumps. Any Ideas on how to get it up & running? I
> haven't been able to find any good HOWTOs. Muchos Gracias...
> Joel
>
> Trevor J Martin wrote:
> >
> > Being a fanatic gamer myself, I did alot of research before I
> > upgraded my voodoo 2 card.
> > I was still using my windows partition to play games and Q3A hadn't
> > made the "linux" announcement yet.
> > I still wanted a card that would be compatible in linux and after
> > asking people on irc (#linux on efnet),
> > came to the conclusion that the Nvidia tnt2 card would be my best
> > investment. There were all sorts of promises
> > made by Nvidia about OpenGL drivers etc.. . I waited and waited for
> > those drivers. I kept hearing about how great voodoo3 cards
> > were in linux and finally, when opportunity knocked, traded my $250.00
> > Nvidia card to a friend for his $90.00 voodoo3 2000 card
> > (temporarily) to test it out in linux. Now I have one thing to say
> > about voodoo3 cards... they rock! Linux support is amazing. Not only
> > can I play Q3A, I can play Unreal Tournament (which IMHO is alot
> > better than Q3A). The performance of a voodoo3 in linux is about the
> -snip-
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