On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Mr-X- wrote:
> i did that and it worked, to get it fullscreen in X (in KDE) i have to set vid
> mode to 1024 and when i start a game it is incredibly slow and chunky, if i
> change the driver from X11 to my voodoo2 it does this:
> ------- Loading ref_gl.so -------
> ref_gl version: GL 0.01
> R_SetMode() - CDS not allowed with this driver
> Initializing OpenGL display
> ...setting mode 5: 960 720
> ref_gl::R_SetMode() - invalid mode
> Initializing OpenGL display
> ...setting mode 3: 640 480
> ref_gl::R_SetMode() - could not revert to safe mode
> ref_gl::R_Init() - could not R_SetMode()
> ------- Loading ref_soft.so -------
> Illegal instruction (core dumped)
>
> Is runnin q2 with the X11 driver the _only_ way im gunna get it to work in X?
to work? no should be able to run from svgalib, but gl under X i'm sure is
the best graphics. Check the howtos and such from linuxquake and
linuxgames i'm sure you will find a solution. I'm a bit busy to test
quake2 (as much fun as it sounds :> )
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone said:
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Mr-X- wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks everyone who replied to my email.
> > > i will try killing gpm and running quake after i have sent this, whats more
> > > important than the mouse is getting quake2 to run in X.
> > > I changed my init levels to 5 so X starts up at boot and you cant log out into
> > > console. when i run quake and it closes my X server it tries to restart X in
> > > the background until i quit quake2 then it seg faults and exits.
> > >
> > > Thanks Again
> > > Mr-X-
> >
> > HHave you read that howto yet? are you doing ./quake2 +set vid_ref softx
> > ?
> >
> > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Ribbo said:
> > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 06:02:35AM +0800, Mr-X- said:
> > > > > Hi. I downloaded the RPM of Quake2 from ftp.iinet.net.au and it wont run in
>ANY
> > > > > window manager under Xwin (KDE, enlightenment, gnome, afterstep), i managed
>to
> > > > > get it running in console 680x420 with my voodoo2 but the mouse wont work. Iv
> > > > > tried to edit /etc/vga/vgalib.config like it says in the README file but it
> > > > > still will not work, anyone have any ideas ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > did you try to turn off GPM ?
> > > >
> > > > # ps aux | grep gpm
> > > > # kill xxxx (gpm PID number)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Rib
> > >
> >
> > --
> > MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> > --Axalon
>
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