I've had a lot of problems getting Xfree 4.0.1 running with my voodoo3. I followed the instructions for the minimal install, which I originally thought was my mistake. After I had 3.3.6 gone and 4.0.1 installed I tried to configure it automatically with 'xf86cfg' which I think just runs 'XFree86 -configure'. The screen flickered and up came the GUI config. Shortly after that, it quit and returned to just the standard background. I killed X and looked back at the log and it couldn't find my mouse (which is a standard 3-button serial and detected it fine under 3.3.6). I edited the file it generated and when I re-ran X, it worked fine. However it would only go in 640x480x8. Then I tried 'xf86config' because I've never had a problem with that in the past. Then I found out there isn't an entry for the voodoo3. So after a few minutes of changing things I finally got it to load up in 1280x1024x24. But the DRI module wasn't loading. Reading README.DRI showed me how to load it and enable it for all users. Besides that, I found the document fairly worthless. Also, it mentions there should be kernel modules, a 'glxinfo' app, and a 'gears' app. I checked the FILES file for them but they weren't anywhere in the release. On dri.sourceforge.net I found glxinfo and gears. After getting that and running glxinfo, I noticed that it was only using the software renderer (indirect). Snooping around in the CVS I found the kernel modules in: xc/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/ I retrieved that directory and ran make. It generated tdfx.o which I copied to the misc module directory. Then re-ran X and glxinfo. This time it fully detected my voodoo3. So after a week I got XFree 4.0.1 fully working. I hope I just missed a lot of documentation that made this easier, because it shouldn't be that difficult to setup. However, since this isn't their current version, it doesn't have to completely work. Ross --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org