From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 21 21:32:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF14B37B401 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:32:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaltorak@quake.com.au) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AB6169.63.5724aadf) with ESMTP id juubaaaa for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:31:17 +1000 Message-ID: <3B32CAEA.91F2AB87@quake.com.au> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:34:50 +1000 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: Amir Shalem , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quake2 on FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 21-Jun-2001 Amir Shalem wrote: > > I have tried lately to run quake2 on freebsd 4.3. > > I managed to get it running, but I had some problems with the sound: > > ------- sound initialization ------- > > /dev/dsp: Invalid argument > > Could not set /dev/dsp to stereo=2 > > > > I have tried looking for FAQs about installing quake on freebsd, > > I have found http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/quake/ page, it said > > quake2/quake needs sound driver capable of supporting mmap()able DMA > > buffers, is that the problem ? > > Hmm, I haven't updated that page in a while :) > That isn't the problem you are having though, but I haven't seen that error > either :( Hmmm I have never been able to get sound working with quake... But my NVIDIA based card wasnt supported ether, so I didnt try to hard with the sound since I couldnt run in openGL :( But NVIDIA support is coming (nvidia.netexplorer.org) so I might look into it again, though Tribes2 looks like a good game that could benifit from some FreeBSD power :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message