From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 6 4: 7:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ren.detir.qld.gov.au (ns.detir.qld.gov.au [203.46.81.66]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A51F3D45 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 04:07:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by ren.detir.qld.gov.au; id WAA00608; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 22:05:51 +1000 (EST) Received: from ogre.detir.qld.gov.au(167.123.8.3) via SMTP by ren.detir.qld.gov.au, id smtpda00578; Sun Feb 6 22:05:42 2000 Received: from atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (atlas.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.8.9]) by ogre.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA14006; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 21:24:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (nymph.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.10.10]) by atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA07445; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 21:24:24 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA87658; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 21:24:24 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from syssgm@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au) Message-Id: <200002061124.VAA87658@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> To: Chris Dillon Cc: Stephen McKay , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Haikal Saadh Subject: Re: Choice of display cards under freebsd. References: In-Reply-To: from Chris Dillon at "Fri, 04 Feb 2000 10:20:08 -0600" Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 21:24:23 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 4th February 2000, Chris Dillon wrote: >On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Stephen McKay wrote: >> Last time I dabbled, it was with one of the early Quake3 tests >> and it worked fine on the Voodoo2 and the Linuxulator. Maybe my monitor >> is naturally brighter. > >I run FreeBSD on my system 99.9% of the time, but when I do want to >play a game, I just boot Windows. I don't think any amount of monitor >brightness would help my situation in FreeBSD, though, since I cranked >mine all the way up and could still just barely make things out. >Most of the time I'd have to fire off a rocket just so I could see the >explosion. Have you tried setting r_gamma to, say, 1.5? Or 2.0? It looks OK on my gear with the default 1.0, but maybe I'm lucky. >> Despite the limitations, a cheap Voodoo2 will be easier to get working >> for Linuxulator games than any other card, and will do OK until proper >> OpenGL support arrives for better cards. > >Probably, since it is a separate piece of hardware. I actually >wouldn't mind finding an extra 12MB Creative VooDoo2 so I can do SLI >(at least in Windows, if not FreeBSD). I don't suppose you've got any >pointers to documentation on setting up the Linuxulator for stuff like >Quake2? Especially the mouse, since that seems to be a significant >hangup for me. I haven't tried in a long time, so maybe the latest >GLide stuff would fix my gamma problem. I can't remember whether Quake 2 was good or bad on my gear. I think I've changed disks since then so all experiments have been lost. But I've just verified that Q3test 1.05 still works, all default settings. Colour fine, sound fine, mouse fine. I didn't do anything clever, I just set it up according to a post on freebsd-multimedia and it worked. Martin Cracauer is a Quake on FreeBSD expert, and also Steve Reid posted about his success with Quake3 on the G200. Search the multimedia list. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message