Quake is probably trying to access the sound card during the "forever". Before running Quake, try doing a "killall artsd" and seeing if that helps.....
David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 7:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] OT - quake3 > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 11:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hey all, >> I've been REALLY busy the last few months and haven't had the chance to >> play my favorite game, q3a. I just started it up last night and after >> finding that I had to install the latest point release, 1.32b, to make >> it >> work again - I did a few warm up games then jumped onto multiplayer - >> aaahhhh!!! Where did all the servers go??? PLEASE tell me it's >> something >> simple!! Did everyone quit playing quake??? I don't think I could make >> it through life knowing that q3a is no longer out there!! I guess I >> took >> it for granted, just thinking it would always be there for me, I should >> have paid more attention, I feel awful!! >> Ok, enough drama, does anyone have a suggestion? >> Thanks :) >> Mike >> > > they saw ya coming and ran away :-) I had to make some change or another > to make it view punkbuster games in the server list. I can't remember > right now and I'm hesitant to fire up q3a in the office, but it was a > setting in the multiplayer server browser. > -- > Jack Coates > Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... > http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Ya know, I don't know what happened, but I fired it up and now it works - go figure. Now it just seems to take forever to start - I don't know - maybe I'll just go back to reading books or watching tv, this computer thing is giving me a tumor! Mike
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