On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Matthew R. Hamilton wrote: mh> I don't know too much about 3Dfx on Linux, but as for the Soundblaster mh> Live. I have a SB Live value on my SuSE 6.4 system at home and it works mh> like a champ. 6.4 and I belive 6.3 have the driver which can be obtained mh> from opensource.creative.com. HTH mh> I also used the driver from this site, but I used the kernel patch version of it, which works excellent. I compiled it as a module as well as built in with successful results in both cases. I also recently made the same patch work with the 2.2.16, it was originally made for the 2.2.14 but some changes in the 2.2.16 don't allow the patch to work 100% a minor tweak in a couple places and now I have a diff for the 2.2.16 mh> Matthew R. Hamilton /Senior Associate ENS mh>Installation/Integration Engineer mh> Convergys Corporation mh> mh> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Keith Warno wrote: mh> mh> > Greetings all. mh> > mh> > Last weekend I went out and bought a Voodoo3 (yes I know there is a Voodoo5 mh> > but my wallet didn't agree with it! :]) and a Soundblaster Live MP3+. Both mh> > of these are pretty high tech from my perspective; I was using an SB AWE64 mh> > and a Diamond Stealth 2000 before the purchase. mh> > mh> > Anyway, there is a 3dfx howto which I've been looking through which has been mh> > a lot of yadda yadda blah bla so far. I also discovered there is a 3dfx mh> > device in /dev/. Anyone know what that's used for? Also what sort of mh> > 3D-related packages are out there from SuSE? mh> > mh> > Last question is: How does one get an SB Live to work under linux? In mh> > windows this thing does SB16 emulation using some funky driver but aparently mh> > there is no way to get it to emulate an SB16 under Linux. mh> > mh> > Thanks fer yer help, mh> mh> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/