"Hi Mike,
Umax S900 with Sonnet G3 466. Dual monitor set up.
The conflict I have noticed was with the IMS Twin Turbo and the V5.
(The company is now IX MICRO). [Note: they went out of business last year-Mike] The twin turbo 8 Meg 2d card is
admittedly long in the tooth, but is still a fine card with good 2d
performance and a slim set of drivers (version 4.0.6 being the last
one). Unfortunately the Twin Turbo control panel and the Voodoo 5
don't seem to cooperate. Randomly the computer will boot into 640x480
for the IMS and seem to have forgotten all the settings in Monitors
and control panels. This hadn't happened before with any of the other
4 video cards I have had in here with the Twin Turbo.
Though in fairness to 3dfx, perhaps this is an issue with where the
Twin Turbo is located in the PCI slots. I seem to recall it demanding
a priority slot to work properly and once I had the V5 the Twin Turbo
was relegated to the second bank of PCI slots (more clearance for the
fans). Is anyone running the V5 happily with a Twin Turbo?
I have since pulled an old ATI 2d/3d video card out of the drawer,
and it seems to be working fine as second monitor (but its 2d isn't
nearly as crisp as the Twin Turbo). I disabled the ATI 3d
acceleration extension to minimize the possibility of conflict, and
so far no problems.
I love the Voodoo 5, just wish that second chip worked.
Ashby"
As noted on the S900 Tips (see systems page for link) a year or so ago, many cards (including video cards and SCSI cards) perform best (or must be) in the one of the top 2 PCI slots on the S900.
"
hi Mike-
Voodoo 5 with latest drivers seems to be causing some (what else) visual
distortions to type faces in Quark 4.11. The font(s) appear to randomly, in
a section/square area of a document; change sizes (larger) several pt.
sizes- and/or condense, as if horizontal scaling were applied.
Zooming in or out brings the type back to normal. Annoying-but I've had no
crashes--and I am using an upgraded 9600-which I know is not supported by
3dfx--but neither were my 2 other Voodoo 3 cards with beta drivers.
Anyway,
my G4mp is due to arrive today-and I'll see if this problem persists.
frank
"
"
Well I put a V5 in my G4 MP 500 and immediately started having menu
bar corruption problems with the G4. I removed the AliasMenu 2.2
extension, which has always worked fine on my 9500, and the problem
went away.
Now if I can just figure out how to keep Netscape from crashing...
Regards from Charlottesville,
Norman Beam
"
"
Hey Mike -
not sure if this is a 'conflict' in terms of extensions, but an odd
occurence regardless...
the Voodoo5 seems to work very well, especially w/ Diablo2 :-) Also
seems great w/
Freehand & Photoshop...
However, since installing the card my USB laser printer no longer works!
Here's my system specs:
Mac OS 9.04 Beige G3minitower(466mhz upgrade); 512MB Ram
slot 3 - OrangeMicroUSB/Firewire PCI card
Brother MFC-8300 attached
slot 2 - empty
slot 1 - 3dfxVoodoo5 video card
Checked Apple System Profiler
under 'volumes' - USB bus says "no devices detected"
under USB activity, I got this message:
20.577: Expert - Initializing disk based USB Expert 1.4.1
21.170: [123456789]: UIM - UIMEndpointDelete: Could not find
endpoint -6987
21.170: [ 0]: USL - UIMEDDelete did not get lock on UIM 0
21.170: [ 0]: USL - UIMControlEDCreate did not get lock on UIM 0
21.171: [ 0]: USL - setting status to level 3
21.242: [ 75575990]: Expert - LoadClassDriver: USBHub1Apple -
calling driver initialize routine... 0
21.243: [ 75575990]: Expert - LoadClassDriver: USBHub1Apple -
driver initialization completed 0
21.243: [ 75575990]: Driver - Externally powered Hub attached -
power supply good 0
22.509: [ 0]: Expert - Bus Enumeration using disk-based
drivers (mSec): 1349
22.510: [ 0]: Expert - Could not find Native Power Manager Lib 0
Does this make any sense?
What is "Native Power Mgr Lib" related to?
My problem is that the printer no longer shows up in the chooser - which
is no surprise since it doesn't appear on the USB bus...
I've tried switching the cards around to different slot combos,
re-installing drivers, etc.
No help...
I'd heard somewhere about conflicts w/Firewire/USB combo cards -
Could the extra power req. on the Voodoo be screwing up the USB somehow??!?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks -
Adrian Douglas
"
I asked Adrian to disable the Voodoo5 control panel and extensions to see if the problem persisted.
BTW - with the original 1.0 drivers at least, a friend noted 'halos' when using the paintbrush in Photoshop 5.5 (not present in ImageReady).
This isn't an extensions issue, but a reader noted a monitor sleep problem:
"
I have had a V5 5500 PCI installed in my beige G3 desktop Rev A,
Powerlogix 466/233 processor, Maxtor Ultra ATA66 20GB hard drive
(thanks, Mike!) for a week or so. I previously had a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI
card running the beta twelve drivers.
First of all, I haven't had any system or extension conflicts (0S 8.6).
I have more than a few Netscape 4.71 crashes but this has not changed.
My only problem, also reported by others, is that my Sony 17" monitor
won't sleep-when it's time to sleep, the powersaving light comes on but
the power light stays on, the screen goes dark, and every few minutes
the blue "resolution not supported" warning box flashes on and off. This
is annoying since I have to shut down where I would normally sleep, but
on the other hand my boot time with the new hard drive is about 1/2 of
the old one, so it's still kinda fun to watch it restart :-).
The images in Unreal Tournament are great! I play with FSAA on and
everything is much smoother. 2D looks better, as well. Overall I am very
satisfied, but wish I had a better understanding of the monitor sleep
issue-guess I don't know how "sleep" works to begin with, so I don't
know how to begin attacking the problem.
James N.
"
Although I suspect he does, I asked James if he had the 1.01 driver update/1.31 ROM installed which solved some monitor issues but may not fix this particular one. | 
