The Glide2 library + glide module appear not to be shipped even on power tools
Yeppers.. I'll probably add it to the 4.1.0 packaging, as I'd like to improve support for any/all video hardware as much as possible. I think I've opened an RFE on this to remind me already.. I don't have a Voodoo II to test with though so it wasn't high priority. I'll likely scarf the support from someone else's packaging to avoid duplication of effort.
Just checked and couldn't find any RFE.. Guess it was just a note to self in the spec file... I've changed the summary to RFE. Thanks.
Didn't happen yet.. deferring for future release.
*** Bug 52284 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Due to the small number of people in the userbase who have Voodoo or Voodoo 2 hardware, and the likely smaller number of those that would actually use this feature if we were to implement it, and also the existing headaches with trying to get Glide3 to deal with new GNU autotools every release, as well as new compiler, etc. I think that adding the Glide2 would create more maintenance work for me than the benefit of having this would provide to the small number of users that would use it. So I've decided to not include the glide driver and Glide2.
Ok. Fortunately the Mandrake XFree packages work on Red Hat
Another thing you could do, is just grab the actual glide_drv.o driver file from Mandrake, and install the Glide2 package. Then make a directory called /usr/local/XFree86/modules and drop glide_drv.o in there, and add to your X config: ModulePath "/usr/local/XFree86/modules" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" Modules located in the custom local path will override those in the standard XFree86 path. That way you can use our RPM packages rather than Mandrake's rather stock unpatched packages. It also has the benefit that when you upgrade XFree86 to a new release, your glide module will not be overwritten, and it should just keep on working. Even if you upgrade to a new version of XFree86, older modules _should_ still work (so the claim goes). If you do try this, please let me know how it goes. I've used the above various times for testing things and it has worked ok, but I'm curious as to how it works for someone else. Take care.