My first video card.

Getting it working in linux in ~1999 was really not easy, especially for a teenager with no linux experience.

My networking card wasn't working either, so I had to run to a friend's house for dial-up internet access, searching for help on Altavista.

Very cool project. Way above my head, still!

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Venn1 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I exhausted my teenage savings to buy the Voodoo 1 due to the Linux support. Granted, I was running Red Hat at the time so the installation consisted of installing what, two RPMs? Played a lot of Q3 and Unreal on that card.

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		I wound up getting it working out-of-the-box with Mandrake Linux. I bought a copy at the local Office Max. I believe I tried redhat, but had issues with that as well. I never went back to it--moved to debian and never looked back.
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ismail 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My first as well, getting drivers working on *nix I. The mid 90’s.. was always a fun challenge.

Also had the issue with modem, paging through the manual figured out the initialisation string

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