[expert] Quake 3 and Mandrake 8.1
I am trying to run Quake 3 Arena on Mandrake 8.1. My hardware is as follows: PIII 800mhz, 768 megs ram Matrox G400, 16mb 1024x768x 16bpp Soundblaster Live! Asus P3B DRI runs well with the games packaged with MDK 8.1. However, Quake 3 Arena crashes just before it gets in play mode. The same goes with Descent 3. This crashes X but does not lock up th emachine: I can still telnet and shutdown. Both programs have been patched to their latest version. Has anybody been able to make hose two games runwith Mdk 8.1, using similar hardware? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quake 3 and Mandrake 8.1
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Patrick Mayer wrote: > I am trying to run Quake 3 Arena on Mandrake 8.1. > > My hardware is as follows: > PIII 800mhz, 768 megs ram > Matrox G400, 16mb 1024x768x 16bpp > Soundblaster Live! > Asus P3B > > DRI runs well with the games packaged with MDK 8.1. > > However, Quake 3 Arena crashes just before it gets in play mode. > The same goes with Descent 3. > This crashes X but does not lock up th emachine: I can still telnet and > shutdown. > > Both programs have been patched to their latest version. > > Has anybody been able to make hose two games runwith Mdk 8.1, using similar > hardware? > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! > There is a known problem with the soundblaster live ALSA driver and I think all versions of Quake. The problem is that Quake attempt to do a direct mmap of the sound device which causes a memory protection or segmentation fault using the ALSA drivers. I haven't managed to find any solutions to the problem. Possibly this is the problem your experiencing. -- Travis Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Research Student Jacaranda Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Adelaide Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quake 3 and Mandrake 8.1
Patrick Mayer wrote: >I am trying to run Quake 3 Arena on Mandrake 8.1. > >My hardware is as follows: >PIII 800mhz, 768 megs ram >Matrox G400, 16mb 1024x768x 16bpp >Soundblaster Live! >Asus P3B > >DRI runs well with the games packaged with MDK 8.1. > >However, Quake 3 Arena crashes just before it gets in play mode. >The same goes with Descent 3. >This crashes X but does not lock up th emachine: I can still telnet and >shutdown. > >Both programs have been patched to their latest version. > >Has anybody been able to make hose two games runwith Mdk 8.1, using similar >hardware? > >Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! > Can you start it from eterm or similar and then post the error message please? thanks, mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com