Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 21:24:23 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Choice of display cards under freebsd. Message-ID: <200002061124.VAA87658@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0002040908400.48411-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> from Chris Dillon at "Fri, 04 Feb 2000 10:20:08 -0600" References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0002040908400.48411-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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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
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