Bug 94996 – xorg-x11 doesn't compile "voodoo" driver

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Carl Olof Englund 2005-06-04 03:22:54 UTC]

X.org 6.8.x includes the new "voodoo" driver for Voodoo 1 & 2 cards. The driver
is, however, not being built during a normal emerge of xorg-x11. The 3DFX use
flag is related to the tdfx driver, I think. If this is not the case, you get a
chance to slap me. I will try to re-emerge xorg with the flag but it'll take a
while (old PC).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge xorg-x11
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
X.org builds nicely but without the "voodoo" OR the "glide" driver for that matter.

Expected Results:  
Built the voodoo driver as well

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i586)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Jun  1 2005, 15:33:16)]
distcc 2.16 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=k6-2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k6-2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.2/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 16bit 16bittmp 3dnow 3dnowext S3TC X aac acpi alsa apache2 apm arts
artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia crypt cups dga
emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gtk2 icq
imap imlib ipv6 jabber joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libg++
libwww logitech-mouse mad mailbox maildir matroska mbox mikmod mmap mmx mng
motif mp3 mpeg mplayer msn ncurses nls offensive ogg opengl openssl oss pam
pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline rtc samba scanner sdl spell ssl
tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales utf8 xine
xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-04 03:38:05 UTC]

I don

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-04 03:38:05 UTC]

I don´t have such card, but

$ euse -i 3dfx
ftp xorg-x11 #
************************************************************
[-    ] 3dfx - Adds support for 3dfx video cards to XFree86. See: voodoo3

$ euse -i voodoo3
global use flags (searching: voodoo3)
************************************************************
[-    ] voodoo3 - Adds support for 3Dfx's Voodoo3 video chipset, else defaults
to Voodoo4/5 support if not in USE.

seems pretty self-explanatory.

[Comment 3 Carl Olof Englund 2005-06-04 09:32:45 UTC]

So it seems..but it also seems I was right this one time. Enabling the 3dfx USE
flag does not make the ebuild compile the voodoo driver (again, I'm NOT talking
about the tdfx driver here).

Firing up X.org with a Device section defined using the voodoo driver produces
something like:

(EE) Failed to load "voodoo" (module does not exist, 0)

[Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2005-09-20 08:07:47 UTC]

reassign, voodoo(4) isn't an external driver.

[Comment 5 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-09-20 09:28:35 UTC]

Created attachment 68868 [details, diff]
xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5.ebuild.patch

Try this ebuild patch.

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-10-05 20:45:33 UTC]

Please reopen when you respond.

[Comment 7 Carl Olof Englund 2005-10-26 17:51:32 UTC]

Tested! Works wonderfully! Card detected and configured with "X -configure". Too
bad the driver only supports 2D but it's still better than nothing and I think -
something the windows driver couldn't do :)

[Comment 8 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-10-26 19:14:45 UTC]

Awesome.

This patch should work against any of the future xorg-x11 versions.  xorg-x11 6*
are in "maintenance mode", that is, no new features, only some bugfixes.  This
is to avoid introducing new bugs on something will soon be replaced.

I don't plan on making many more changes to 6.8.2 so you're safe putting a
revision of your choice (probably want -r6 due to fixes that exist in it) in
your overlay with this patch applied.