From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Feb 9 14:13:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05982 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:13:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fw.corp.netcom.ca (fw.netcom.ca [206.217.37.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05976 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:12:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taob@office.corp.netcom.ca) Received: by fw.corp.netcom.ca; id NAA02219; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:04:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from office.corp.netcom.ca(10.35.5.212) by fw.corp.netcom.ca via smap (3.2) id xma002178; Mon, 9 Feb 98 13:03:48 -0500 Received: by office.corp.netcom.ca. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA24553; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:03:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:03:45 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Randall Hopper cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pure3D/GLQuake (was Re: Gack, again! 3DFX cards.) In-Reply-To: <19980129194451.28252@ct.picker.com> 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 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" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message