[ale] video card question

[jimpop at rocketship.com (Jim Popovitch)]

The Banshee chips were the predecessor to the Voodoo2 chips.  3dfx saw a
way to improve the Voodoo chip by adding some cache and o/cing it.  For
the most part, it's v2 compatible. You can get Banshee and v2 drivers
from linuxberg.com 

Banshee, v2, v3, TNT, Matrox...are all chipsets.  However 3dfx has
decided to not only sell chipsets, but now also cards, giving us the
Voodoo3-2000/3000/3500 family of cards.

FWIW, I have a banshee card and it rocks.

-Jim

Wandered Inn wrote:
> 
> I recently picked up a no-name video card that I'd like to see if I
> could get it to work with Linux.  It's by a company named InnoVision and
> is called a Mighty Banshee.  It says it's a Voodoo2 card, but I can't
> find any specific info on the actual chipset.  A bit of ignorance here,
> but is Voodoo2 a chipset, or a specific technology that is supported by
> various chipsets?  The company has a web site, but it pretty much sucks
> as well as the docs that came with the card.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
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