Graphics Card not supported

[thedp]

I just installed release of debian on my p3 PC, and guess what... It does not support 3dfx voodoo video card. the bottom line, I hate Debian.

[devils casper]

Have you tried "vesa" driver? It supports most of Graphics Cards.

[coopstah13]

It doesn't have anything to do with debian not supporting it, there should be X.org support for the video card. I coulda sworn there was a driver for 3dfx cards, but I could be mistaken.

ccooper@ccooper-lap:~$ apt-cache show xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
Package: xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 160
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1:1.3.0-6
Replaces: xserver-xorg (<< 6.8.2-35), xserver-xorg-driver-tdfx
Provides: xserver-xorg-video-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.4)
Conflicts: xserver-xorg-driver-tdfx
Filename: pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-tdfx/xserver-xorg-video-tdfx_1.3.0-6_i386.deb
Size: 42892
MD5sum: 68d9988b32e4c3f9cba4366418c20427
SHA1: 44115dfa543d8f114b1754a4d19378b106350764
SHA256: e408569f601eee5316c27267fb12d9239537de28d9c923a101d9c8793afd59a8
Description: X.Org X server -- tdfx display driver
 This package provides the driver for 3dfx Voodoo video cards and their
 derivatives.
 .
 More information about X.Org can be found at:
 <URL:http://www.X.org>
 <URL:http://xorg.freedesktop.org>
 <URL:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg>
 .
 This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-tdfx driver module.
Tag: admin::hardware, hardware::video, implemented-in::c, role::shared-lib, use::driver, x11::library

all you need to do is install this then run the xorg configure script

su
apt-get update
apt-get install xserver-xorg-driver-tdfx
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

pick your driver from the list, should be tdfx

the other possibility is you need xserver-xorg-video-voodoo