From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jun 21 19:29:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22456 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:29:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rfd1.oit.umass.edu (mailhub.oit.umass.edu [128.119.175.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22449 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:29:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gp@philos.umass.edu) Received: from tower.my.domain (nscs23p14.remote.umass.edu) by rfd1.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #29083) with SMTP id <0EUX005SGLLGYC@rfd1.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:29:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:32:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Subject: Re: Quake2 and bad system call In-reply-to: <199806220130.LAA14918@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Sender: gp@tower.my.domain To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I've had Quake2 (That is QUake2-3.13 with 3.14a and 3.15a > > subsequently expanded on top) fail with "bad system call" on > > -current from early April and on -current from about 5/20. > > Just wondering if anyone has a fix for this. I've seen the same > > problem reported in the archives but didn't see a solution. On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hmm.. Do you have shared memory installed on your system? If having "options SYSVSHM" in my kernel accomplishes that, then the answer is yes. > I know Quake 2 uses shared mem when in X11 mode, and possibly uses it for GL > rendering.. > Just for more info: -I am just trying to get it working on X11, not GL-Quake. -I have tried specifying "+set vid_ref softx", but that didn't help. -I updated my -current again recently (Fri. 6/19), but that didn't help either. I didn't really think it would. -If it helps, while my xterm says "bad system call", the console says "/kernel: pid 7517 (quake2), uid 65535: exited on signal 12" Thanks. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message