Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:03:45 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@corp.netcom.ca> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pure3D/GLQuake (was Re: Gack, again! 3DFX cards.) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980209130218.4381g-100000@office.corp.netcom.ca> In-Reply-To: <19980129194451.28252@ct.picker.com>
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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Randall Hopper wrote:
>
> Well, once before I had everything set up quite right I had it dump
> out on me, and as you say it hosed the console leaving it in some
> strange mode. Once I got setup, the same thing happened anytime I
> forgot to run it as root (so glide.so could detect & get at the
> Voodoo board as I recall). After I cooked a setuid-root perl
> wrapper script to run glquake, I haven't had any problems since.
Nope, I still have not had any luck getting glquake to work, even
as root from a text console. I'm thinking it's a Mesa library
problem, from the error message "fxMesaCreateContext". I don't know
why that would leave my console in an unusable state though.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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