From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed May 26 4:56:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from grisu.bik-gmbh.de (grisu.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A74D14D76 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 04:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@counter.bik-gmbh.de) Received: from counter.bik-gmbh.de (counter.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.131]) by grisu.bik-gmbh.de (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA23580; Wed, 26 May 1999 13:56:37 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by counter.bik-gmbh.de (8.9.3/8.8.8) id NAA22383; Wed, 26 May 1999 13:55:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cracauer) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 13:55:35 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: Jamie Bowden Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quake2 Message-ID: <19990526135535.A22132@cons.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Jamie Bowden on Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:33:35AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In , Jamie Bowden wrote: > > I got the quake3 arena demo running a while ago, and figured since I owned > a copy, it would be cool to get quake2 up and running, and bench it > against win98. Well, I can run it in software mode in a window, but it's > only rendered on half the window (the right half is black). Wrong color depth. > When I try to > run it in 3dfx opengl mode, X switches modes, but my screen goes black, > and recovery isn't always an option. Sound like you're using the Mesa that come with quake2. Use the one from ports/emulator/linux_mesa. Shut down X before you start Quake2. > I have a Canopus Pure3d2 12M VooDoo2 > card, and am Running 3.2-RELEASE. I also went ahead and created a > libvga.conf file, and tried running it in console mode. It starts on a > console, except the console is black, with a solid block cursor in the > upper left corner, still in 80x24 character mode. Any clues? Also make sure you have the patched libvga from ports/emulators/linux_libs-2.6 or higher, not a native Linux one. See my usenet postings for more info. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer/ "Where do you want to do today?" Hard to tell running your calendar program on a junk operating system, eh? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message